WWE Byte This Report 7-19-02 (Eric Bischoff and John Cena)
    Submitted by Calvin Martin on Monday, July 22, 2002 at 6:09 PM EST

    WWE Byte This! 7-19-02
    By E.C. Ostermeyer
    eco@wireco.net


    This is the WWE Byte This! report for Friday, 19 July 2002m and I am E.C.

    Prior to the

    Opening credits

    We get the video clip from Raw of Eric Bischoff saying that he's the one to
    put the 'E' in WWE.

    'This is so surreal!' says Good Ol' Jim Ross.

    Your hosts are Kevin Kelly and Dr. Tom Prichard.
    They've had technical problems on the show already, (read 'Kelly tried his
    hand at the control board and screwed things up just like the last time') that
    Kelly blames the late start on.

    Therefore, we won't get Droz this week, and Tazz is 'taking care of some
    family business' up in Boston this week.

    Apparently Tommy Tickets has run afoul of 'Da Law' once more.

    Kelly and Dr. Tom reminisce about 'The Hug Heard Round The World' between Eric
    Bischoff and Vince McMahon last Monday night on Raw.

    (It busted MY 'Weird Sh*t-O-Meter' all right!)

    Kelly says he can't believe he's got Eric Bischoff on his run-sheet for Byte This!
    'It is surreal,' says Kelly, echoing Jim Ross.

    Dr. Tom says that Bischoff cannot be called a dumb guy by any means; he
    couldn't have come within an eyelash of running Vince McMahon and the the WWF
    out of business.

    Kelly touches briefly on the hiring of Stephanie McMahon as the Smackdown
    General Manager.

    Dr. Tom is enthusiastic about Steph's new job, saying that she has a more
    business-like approach to running things as GM.

    'Her first act was to toss Eric Bischoff out of the building,' says Kelly,
    'but he got in the last laugh when he drove off in HHH's limo.'

    Kelly says it is all going back to competition, with two competing shows vying
    for talent, ratings, and their niche in the business.
    Dr. Tom says it will make both rosters more competitive.
    'It will be an interesting time for everybody,' says Dr. Tom.

    And Eric Bischoff is on the phone.

    He gives a brief rundown of the events that led up to his appearance on Raw
    last Monday night.

    Bischoff says that he and Vince had been negotiating on his showing up in WWE.
    'Everybody did a good job of keeping things quiet until Monday night,' says
    Bischoff, ' I came into La Guardia, stayed in my hotel room for 6-7 hours to
    keep out of sight. Then I went tot he arena and stayed in the limo until it
    was my time to go on stage. The look on the faces of some of the wrestlers was
    just priceless. I wish I had a video camera. I was anxious to see how people
    were going to react.'

    Kelly does a brief rundown of Bischoff's accomplishments. This includes
    'changing the way Vince McMahon does business.'

    Bischoff says that it was never his intention to run Vince out of business;
    'it was just rhetoric.'

    'When I came on board in WCW, it was such a small company, nobody believed
    they were any threat. I'm a mercenary, and I will do anything to succeed for
    those who pay me. '

    'As for when I knew that Vince wasn't going under,' he continues, ' it was
    when I saw the 'Attitude' initiative begin to work. I said 'Hey, these guys
    aren't gonna lay down.' That's when I knew.'

    Dr. Tom wants to know who Bischoff answers to in his new job'
    Bischoff says that his attorney handles that; he's spoken maybe five times
    with Jim Ross; he has respect for Jim Ross, and he's happy to be here in WWE.

    Kelly asks Bischoff's thoughts on the way WCW was brought in to WWE since the
    buyout'

    'The world is full of people that know how best to do things after they've
    been done,' says Bischoff, ' a lot of the top talent for WCW wasn't
    represented, so it wasn't destined to be a big successful push.'

    Dr. Tom asks about the time Degeneration X showed up and invaded WCW'
    'Once they did that,' says Bischoff, 'we couldn't quite get the support to do
    the same to them. You see, we were in a lawsuit over copyright problems with
    WWF at that time, and our lawyers were very conservative. What really
    embarrassed me was when DX showed up at our corporate office, it showed just
    how crappy the offices we worked in were. Turner put us in a building a mile
    from a sewage plant. Every time it rained, the floors flooded.'

    Kelly asked about the problems some former WCW wrestlers may have with Bischoff'
    'I'm beyond all that,' says Bischoff, 'if they have a problem they know where
    to find me.'

    Kelly asks which departure from WCW hurt WCW the most; Chris Jericho, or The
    Big Show'

    'Neither of them hurt the company at all,' says Bischoff, 'Big Show was on his
    way out anyway. Jericho's departure occurred when the company was having
    problems; his departure didn't have an effect on anything that was going on.'

    Dr. Tom tosses out the fish-hook question about the departure of Steve Austin.

    'I don't like to get into this sort of thing,' says Bischoff, 'when I brought
    in Hulk Hogan into WCW, Austin came to me saying that he wanted to be Hogan's
    tag partner.

    'And his COUSIN!

    'Well, we already had a whole story line planned that wasn't going to involve
    Austin. When I told him that, all of a sudden things got real difficult. Lots
    of 'injuries,' lots of no-shows. It didn't hurt me to fire him. I think it
    actually improved his career in my mind.'

    Caller John from Hartford, CT wants to know what Bischoff's new role will be
    in WWE

    'We haven't sat down and discussed what my role will be,' says Bischoff,
    'whatever it takes, whatever they want me to do, I will do.'

    Kelly and Dr. Tom comment on what former WCW wrestlers have said about how
    tough it was to get an idea across to the WCW writers, that it seemed like
    there were only two or three people making all the decisions.

    'With the schedule we had,' says Bischoff, 'it was hard for anybody to get an
    idea in. We were on the road four days a week, and then did two live TV shows
    on top of that. When you do live TV, you get into the 'live TV mindset,' and
    there was not a lot of room for changes; changing on the fly is always
    dangerous, especially when you are doing a live show two nights a week as we
    were.
    '
    Not that we didn't listen to their ideas. It's just that a lot of their ideas
    didn't fit the master plan we were working from. As for them saying that
    certain people had too much access to me, that's wrong. Everybody had access
    to me. One of the things I've noticed about how things work here in WWE is
    that they are blessed with many talented people who have been in the business
    a long time. They understand the wrestling business from the ground up; they
    know how the machine works.

    'In WCW, we often ended up absorbing people from other parts of Turner. Some
    of these people ended up with us because, where they worked before, nobody
    wanted to fire them! Not exactly the 'best and brightest' became the norm at
    WCW. They were there because'they were there!'

    'Yeah,' says Kelly, 'after the accountant was put in charge, and they let you
    go, I could see they were in trouble over there. You just knew there were
    going to be big problems down the road for WCW.'

    'The accountant that took over didn't do so until after I left,' says
    Bischoff, 'I think that was a big part of what happened to WCW. I've read
    every comment from every wrestler who came over from WCW. First off, none of
    them know what they were talking about because none of them were a part of the
    decision making process of the senior management of Turner-Time Warner. They
    have opinions, I will grant them that, but they aren't grounded in fact.'

    Kelly asks if the idea guaranteed money and guaranteed contracts were
    something that WCW management thought was the right way to go, as opposed to
    the standard performance'based contracts' And was that one thing that hurt the
    company in the long run'

    Bischoff says no, long term guaranteed contacts weren't what caused WCW to fail.
    'I grant you, it made it more difficult for WCW to weather a sudden downturn
    in the business,' says Bischoff, 'guaranteed contracts were a fact of life all
    along in WCW from the time I joined the company. I inherited that system when
    I came on board. Having that large a staff each on guaranteed contracts made
    it hard to weather the downturn in business.

    'When I joined WCW,' he continues, 'I got them in the black for the first
    time, and with triple digit gains. Then WWF started aggressively pursuing
    their 'Attitude' angle.

    'The execs at Time Warner said 'If they do that, here's how we counter it with
    your new creative direction.'

    'That happened in August, 1998 at a meeting I attended. There were faces at
    that meeting I'd never seen before, and they told me how things were going to
    be in WCW. When I walked out of that meeting, I thought to myself, 'Man,
    things are gonna get UGLY!'

    'And I was right. I was no longer in control of WCW. When Ted Turner was
    running Turner, the people under him were like him, all entrepreneurs, willing
    to take chances, to go the distance to be successful. The merger with Time
    Warner got everybody thinking about their stock options, about their opposite
    numbers in Time Warner, and about hanging onto their jobs. A 'committee
    mentality' settled in, and a lot of people saw WCW as a hot commodity for them
    to sink their teeth into in order to look good to their Time Warner
    counterpart. That was the beginning of the end, in August of 1998, and not
    the guaranteed contracts.'

    Kelly asks Bischoff to look forward for Raw and Smackdown, and the Triple
    Threat Match at Vengeance this Sunday.

    Bischoff says that the three participants all have different characteristics.
    'The Rock has momentum,' he says, 'it's hard to imagine him not coming out on
    top. Undertaker's been around a long time; he has lots of savvy, and he knows
    what's what. He doesn't have to make a big comeback like Hogan did, although
    both he and Hogan are wrestling legends. Kurt Angle I haven't talked with.
    When I watch Angle, I see a machine. He is so talented and so on top of his
    game right now. This is a great Main Event, not just because I'm the Raw GM,
    but because I'm a fan as well.'

    Kelly asks Bischoff about Stephanie McMahon being the GM of Smackdown with her
    father running the whoie show, and how Bischoff expects to get a fair shake
    against competition like that'

    Bischoff laughs, and says 'Talent,'Perseverence'and Ruthless Aggression.'
    'I'm glad to be competing against a McMahon. I've been competing against them
    my whole career. With Vince, we competed, and at the end of the day, he took
    home the prize, and I sat at home and ate pizza for two years. So here's
    another opportunity to compete against a McMahon' I'm ready for it. Bring her on!'

    Kelly asks about Bischoff pursuing HHH for the Raw brand.

    'This product needs to re-invent itself,' say Bischoff, ' and it's hard to do
    that when you keep using the same six or eight people over and over again to
    make your best matches.'

    (HALLELUIA! Somebody finally got what you fans have been hollering about for
    the past five years!)

    'Working with HHH is a big focus for me,' Bischoff continues, 'if I am
    successful in signing him, it will make Raw a much better product.'

    Dr. Tom asks about the possibility of Bill Goldberg showing up in WWE'
    'I've answered that question a couple of times already today,' says Bischoff,
    'I don't know. Bill and I are friends. We will be going to Sturgis again this
    year, and I am hoping to talk with him then. Now, since I'd made an agreement
    with Vince McMahon about joining WWE, Bill obviously didn't know about that
    until last Monday night. I'd love to see Bill in WWE. There are a number of
    misconceptions about Bill's contribution to the business. There are a lot of
    great stories still there, and a lot of great matches still there.'

    The Chatroom says that Goldberg 'is a forty-year-old, injury-prone
    difficult-to-work-with flash in the pan with a chip on his shoulder.'

    'A lot of that is unfair,' says Bischoff, 'Chip on his shoulder'' How about
    'Passion for the Business' instead' There's nothing wrong with a big ego. That
    means that the person who has it has to go out and find ways to feed it. Bill
    can be a handful at times, but through it all, he's a good person. As far as
    his rise in the company, until the Rock showed up, no one had ever before
    risen so far so fast or achieved as much as Bill Goldberg had. There are two
    people in this business who are true phenoms: Bill Goldberg and the Rock. Look
    at the other stars who reached that level. They'd all been in the business a
    long, long time. Bill still has a lot to offer. As far as his injuries go,
    he'd be injured a lot less if he didn't have the passion he has for this
    business.'

    Adam from New York wants to know about how Bischoff feels being back in the
    same locker room with Ric Flair'

    'So much of this has been blown out of proportion,' says Bischoff, 'when I
    left WCW in 2000, Ric and I had a good relationship. It was a roller coaster
    at times, but I like Ric Flair. I can't speak for how Flair feels about me.
    There's been times his family and mine visited the yacht club in Orlando and
    drank Mai-Tais together. Then there are the other times when we both wanted to
    put each other in therapy. Pick a day, a week, a month: we've done it all.'

    Kelly thanks Bischoff for the idea of the Nitro Girls, which spawned their
    counterparts, the WWE Divas.

    Kelly asks Bischoff who stands out to him as a WWE Diva'
    'I am partial to Stacy (Keibler) because of her being a Nitro Girl alumni,'
    says Bischoff, 'and the fact she's got legs up to her earlobes doesn't hurt
    either!'

    'Oh yeah!' say Dr. Tom with a laugh.

    Dr. Tom asks Bischoff if he can contain that massive ego of his working in WWE'
    'When people left WCW, either because I fired them or because they wanted to
    leave,' says Bischoff, 'how easy would it be for them to trash WCW in order to
    get on the good side of Vince McMahon or Jim Ross' A lot of them did it just
    to make themselves look good at the expense of the company they once worked
    for. In some cases, the talent has blown the misery level over at WCW way out
    of proportion, and I should know; there towards the end, I was the most
    miserable guy in the place! There was a lot of good reasons to be miserable in
    WCW, and I take responsibility for some situations that I could have helped
    make better, but through one thing or another, it never happened.

    'But that was then. I'm now with WWE, and trying to make an impact here. I
    have no desire, quite frankly, to go back into that pressure cooker that WCW
    had me in. I am financially very well off, and I've got a lot of other things
    I am doing ('Survivor' being one) in my life right now to feed this ego of
    mine. I'm doing wrestling because you get a rush in wrestling you can't get
    anywhere else. No matter how much money I make doing other projects, nothing
    compares to wrestling when you are firing on all eight cylinders, manipulating
    emotions, creating heat, developing story lines. Nothing beats it.
    That's why I am here; I can't get that needle out of my arm!'

    Kelly asks if Bischoff is really a member of the (appalling) Baldwin
    theatrical family, which gets a snort of outrage from Dr. Tom, (whose bad
    opinion of the Baldwins is only exceeded by my own.)
    'Who's the biggest one'' asks Bischoff.

    'Daniel,' says Dr. Tom, 'but he was the one who had all the problems with the
    police. Getting dragged out of hotel rooms and stuff.'
    'How do you know these things, Tom'' asks Kelly.
    'I think I was in the room next door on one occasion,' laughs Dr. Tom.
    'I'm not related to ANY of the Baldwins, thank you,' says Bischoff, ' and I
    guess that isn't a bad thing.'

    Caller Terry from Georgia wants to know what happened with the possible
    buy-out of WCW by Fusient Group that fell through just before Vince bought
    everything for a song'

    'There's a procedure in contract negotiations called 'Due Diligence,' says
    Bischoff, ' where everybody goes over the books for six months to get an idea
    about how stable a company is, so that we knew everything about WCW before
    acquiring it. Jason Hervey, my good friend, pointed me at Fusient because they
    were buying investment properties at the time. We were so close to closing
    that deal that I had taken my family to Hawaii because I knew that I would be
    working with WCW 24/7 when the deal closed, and I wouldn't see them again for
    a while.

    'In Hawaii, I got a phone call from Brian Goddall (sp') of Fusient, telling me
    that the deal had fallen through.

    'What happened was that the same time the Fusient deal was going through, AOL
    was merging with Time Warner, and a guy named Jamie Kellner assumed control
    over TNT and TBS.

    'Now, in the Fusient offer, we included extensive and extended airtime on both
    TNT and TBS as part of the deal.

    'Kellner took one look at the deal and said 'go ahead, but don't include any
    airtime on TNT or TBS in the deal. I don't want wrestling on our networks
    anymore.'

    'Which meant we had a product but nowhere to sell it. We were effectively off
    the air. The deal wasn't worth anything, so naturally we backed out.'

    Kelly asks Bischoff where he sees the wrestling business five years from now'
    'It's hard to say,' say Bischoff, ' there's no magic bullet or lightning in a
    bottle to turn things around. Wrestling is and will always be popular and
    cutting edge. It is trend-proof and fad-proof.

    'Those so-called 'experts' who want to tear it all down and 'have all the
    answers,' I'm betting are living in their parents' basement and working at
    Burger King. Wrestling is up against a flood of reality-based shows right now,
    and has seen some erosion of its market share. This is no surprise, because
    wrestling is the original reality-based show; WWE was doing reality-based way
    back when then were putting on the 'Attitude' angle.

    'You would never have seen the kind of reality shows you are seeing now five,
    three, two years ago on network TV. You are seeing them now because the ad
    market is soft, money is tight, and the networks are scrambling for ad
    revenue. Especially in the summer time, when their regular shows go into
    hiatus, and the ad market is soft; that's when you see these reality shows,
    'Dog Eat Dog', 'Fear Factor', during a tough period that lasts ninety days.
    Then they go back to dramas and sitcoms.

    'Wrestling is edgy, it's dangerous, and it's there year-round. It is more fun
    for the audience to watch than a cop show or a doctor show. We will see more
    reality-based storylines because the viewers are wanting reality-based
    programs. You need spontaneous action, real reality. That's what we are
    selling here.'

    Kelly and Dr. Tom thank Bischoff for being on the show, and shill for
    Bischoff's upcoming segment on 'WWE Confidential.'

    Howard Finkel shows up with an 'Outthink the Fink' for this week.
    Kelly asks Fink who will win the Triple Threat match at Vengeance'
    Fink hems and haws, and shills his butt off for all three wrestlers, and winds
    up not picking the winner as a result.

    The 'Outthink the Fink' question concerns an event thast once occurred at the
    Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, site of Sunday's WWE 'Vengeance' PPV.

    At the event, who was the special referee, and what was the Main Event of the
    night'

    Kelly says he wants the Iron Sheik to help him out with the pre-Vengeance show
    on Sunday.

    This gets a horse laugh from everybody.

    As they wait for John Cena, Dr. Tom fills us in on WWE letting Heartland
    Wrestling Association go as a developmental area, saying that HWA's Les
    Thatcher did a great job, and the HWA should carry on all right.

    Regarding the mass firings of WWE developmental talent, Kelly says that for
    information about wrestlers being let go, fans should check wwe.com for the
    latest news from the official place to get it.

    John Cena is on the phone live from 'Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom,' where he and
    Nova are squaring off for the gold in OVW tonight. A 'No DQ/Handcuff' match, I
    believe.

    Kelly asks about Cena's reaction when he found out that he was going to WWE'

    'It was just a regular day,' says Cena, 'then about three o'clock, Michael
    Hayes comes up to me. I thought it was something routine, like the Dark Match
    assignment, but instead he told me I was working with Kurt Angle that night on
    the Smackdown show.

    'I asked him, 'are they turning Angle babyface' Because I'm a heel.'
    Hayes says no, you're the face. Well, I was a pretty ratty-looking heel, so I
    had to get a lot of image-change things done, which left almost no time to set
    up the match with Kurt.'

    Dr. Tom says that sometimes it works out better that way; you don't have time
    to get nervous.

    Cena says there's some of his earliest footage he'd like to find and burn all
    available copies.

    Kelly says that he's got footage of Cena's match with the Hardcore Kid. They
    are gonna put it on tape and call it, 'When Animals Mate!'

    Kelly asks when Cena's 'light went on''

    Cena says when he got to OVW, where he says the teaching, and little things,
    their attention to details helped him to improve beyond what he had learned in
    California.

    'Out there,' says Cena, 'they were into glitz and glam, ring entrances, and
    your physique. In OVW, I got hooked up with Danny Davis, a guy who really
    loves this business. He taught me how to book finishes, The little things got
    analyzed and to my specifications. It improved me tenfold.'

    Dr. Tom says Kelly, the pig, likes to bury people on this show of his.
    He then asks what Cena's first impression was of that hole of an arena that
    OVW wrestles in, adding that it should be condemned.

    Cena, on the other hand, praises the place, saying it exemplifies wrestling.
    'You know what you are getting the second you walk through the door,' he says.

    Cena goes on to praise everyone who has helped him in WWE, including
    Undertaker, Jericho, and of course, Kurt Angle.

    Dr. Tom wants to know where Cena's former moniker, 'Prototype' came from'
    'I had this shaggy mohawk as part of my 'look,' plus I had never had a drink
    before, ' laughs Cena, 'the wrestlers out in California were bouncing around
    names like 'Machine' and 'Project 284.' 'Prototype' came up and the name stuck.'

    Kelly asks Cena's opinion of Chris 'Harvard' Nowinksy from 'Tough Enough 1.'
    'He's more geared to academics, being from Harvard,' says Cena, 'but, while
    I'm also a college graduate from Springfield College in Springfield MA, I
    stress athletics more than academics."

    Dr. Tom asks if Cena can confirm he wanted to be a wrestler since he was four
    years old'

    'Yeah, ' laughs Cena, 'I had four brothers. We all loved wrestling, and used
    to do matches in our basement on the concrete floor. We used to make the Title
    belts out of fanfold computer paper. I still have one half of our version of
    the NWA Tag Title belts at home after all these years.'

    Kelly asks Cena about being on Smackdown.
    Cena laughs, and says he's had friends turn the show on, and think they are
    watching OVW, what with Randy Orton, Batista and others on there.

    Kelly asks Cena about Brock Lesnar.
    'TV doesn't do him justice,' says Cena, 'you just gotta see him live. He's a
    real-time mutant. He's got everything it takes right now to go all the way.'

    Randy Orton'
    'Orton is unbelievable at doing the 'unteachables' in wrestling,' says Cena,
    'when he gets in the ring, for some reason he looks like he belongs there.
    Everything he does is just so smooth, crisp, and clean.'

    Kelly asks what video tapes he studies, to which Cena replies that he's
    currently watching old Randy Savage and Ted DiBiase tapes, learning from the
    legends.

    'I watch a lot of the 80's-style heels,' he says, 'because they got a lot of
    heat, and didn't do a lot of the high-flying stuff you see nowadays on TV.
    They got the fans even though they didn't overwork themselves doing it. Pacing
    and timing are what they teach me. I want to see how they worked it, how
    somebody could get such heat by just throwing punches.'

    Kelly recalls Freddie Blassie who could stick with Lou Thesz in the ring, but
    made his mark doing the 'vampire' bit by biting his opponent on the head.

    The Chatroom says 'Welcome Back, Sting,' which is one heckuva compliment for
    Cena, who's got the 'Sting look' going big time.

    Kelly asks if the WWE locker room has been helping Cena out by critiquing his
    matches'

    Cena says yes, that when he finishes a match, he always asks others if there
    was something they saw that he could have done to make it better'
    'In California,' says Cena, 'we had guys who were so green in the business
    that if you asked them that, they felt like they'd do more harm than good
    answering you because they didn't know what to look for, or how to be
    intellignet about what they saw. Well, that all changed in OVW and I'm seeing
    it again in WWE. Everybody wants you to better yourself. Everybody wants you
    to succeed. There are guys who will sit down, and say, listen, you gotta do
    this, this, this, and this.'

    Kelly, playing the doofus again, asks Cena if the 'Prototype' character made
    Cena into a white supremacist'

    This gets a laugh from Cena, and a snort of outrage from Dr. Tom, who gives
    Kelly 'The Look.'

    Kelly says that was a legitimate question that he had down on his sheet.
    'Tryin' to play the race card, huh'' laughs Cena.

    'Just keepin' it real,' says Kelly, 'how's the weather in Louisville''
    'It is hot as a sonofabitch,' says Cena, 'humidity's about a hundred percent,
    the temp's like one seventy''

    'Man, you know that ring mat is gonna feel REAL good tonight, huh'' laughs Dr.
    Tom.

    Matt from Poughkeepsie, NY wishes Cena good luck in his match with Nova
    tonight, then asks Cena if he feels pressure representing the Boston area in
    wrestling'

    'I'm proud to represent the Boston area,' says Cena, 'it's where WWE's roots are.'
    'And if the Celtics could shoot a free throw,' laughs Kelly, 'you'd have even
    more to be proud of''

    'Y'know,' says Cena, slipping into 'Prototype' kayfabe for a minute, 'I've
    just about had enough of you and your snide comments, Kevin Kelly''

    'So what will happen first'' continues Kelly, 'hell freezes over, the Red Sox
    win the Series, or you become Undisputed Champ''

    'Reverse the order and it's a done deal!' laughs Cena.

    Kelly and Dr. Tom thank John Cena for being on the show, and for allowing Dr.
    Tom to give him such a hard time.

    Cena leaves, as Kelly and Dr. Tom jabber about how Eric Bischoff will fit in
    with WWE.

    Dr. Tom says Bischoff will fit in, that he has something to give.
    Kelly says that Bischoff also has the chance to have a good time with what
    he's gonna do, not being saddled with all the other stuff he had to put up
    with in WCW.

    Kelly comments on Chavo Guerrero's challenge to Rey Misterio. Dr. Tom says
    Rey's got some heavy duty ahead of him.

    The Chatroom and phone queue collapses, and Kelly makes a snide poke at Byte
    This! producer Big Country.

    Dr. Tom says he will be calling in the 'Vengeance' pre-game show with great
    interviews galore.

    Big Country actually phones in from the control room, saying that the
    'technical problems' have knocked out the Byte This! set's intercom system.
    Kelly thinks BC's really at the local tavern.

    (And he might be right, because I'd swear I heard glasses clinking and a
    jukebox playing in the background.)

    BC owns up, saying he and the rest of the technical crew left the show at 5 PM
    like always, technical problems notwithstanding, and have been boozing ever since.
    'What are you two still doing there in the studio'' laughs Big Country.

    We get a montage of favorite photos on the chyron, including Dr. Tom sporting
    a Billy & Chuck haircut, Kevin Kelly as Santa making some kid cry, Seth Mates
    doing 'Number Two' and reading the paper, and finally, of course, Paul Heyman
    as 'The Skullet!'

    Shills galore for the Vengeance PPV, but no push for the individual matches.
    Kelly says that they're saving those for the 'Vengeance' pre-game show.

    We close the show with last December's 'Vengeance' PPV where Chris Jericho
    becomes the first WWE Undisputed Champion.

    Next week's guest is supposed to be the Rock.

    See you then.

    E.C. Ostermeyer
    eco@wireco.net




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