STW #58: Paul Heyman in the WWE 

Starts at 14:29

Bruce’s impersonation of Paul Heyman sounds like Vizzini (Shawn Wallace) from The Princess Bride 😂

Bruce's impressions of Heyman and Cornette are spot on.

Paul Heyman is the real life Penguin from Batman!

His description of Paul at the beginning comparing it to Game of Thrones is golden😂😂😂😂

Bruce's Paul Heyman impression is by far his funniest and best one

The Heyman impression is absolute gold.

Smackdown was waaay better than Raw in 2002-2003.

When Bruce said "Nah Man, they got nip covers" at 1:37:46 I literally couldn't breathe from laughing so hard.

14:30

If there's no ECW there's no Attitude era.

CT: "Hows 205 live doing?", Bruce: "I have no idea", CT: "Nobody else does either!!!" LMFAOOO!!!

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!

Boy if I had a dollar for every time Conrad said “rumor and innuendo” 😂

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

Moral of the story: Kevin Dunn is the real problem with WWE for the last 30 years.

The 205 Live punchline towards the end was amazing 😂😂

He will always be Paul E. Dangerously to me

Bruch Prichard's Paul Heyman borders on Gilbert Gottfried !!!

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

I Love Bruce's Patterson Impression. The funny thing is that Patterson really talks like that.

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...

You hear the name Heyman in WRESTLING and ECW comes to mind great times and segway into the Attitude era good stuff again guys

Paul seems like a decent conman.

( 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 💀

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 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

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.

Love the Paul Heyman impression! However, I wouldn't mind hearing Conrad do an impression of the old Brother Love character.....I loooooooooooove yoooooooouuuuuuu.

The Paul Heyman and Jerry Jarrett impersonations are my favorites.

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.

Bruce needs to do a one man show with all of the wrestlers he does impressions of

I love the heyman impressions.

Great podcast, thanks guys!

One of my favorite episodes

Love these stories, Michael Hayes telling on Paul around 1:40:00 cracked me up.

"Paul's" wedding speech 😂

I LOVE the way Bruce describes Paul Heyman lol & yes the comparison to Little Finger(Peter Balish) is great!

The Heyman impersonation is so funny.

LOL @ 3:50 Conrad giggling like a blushing school girl!

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 ticket story that Jim Cornette tells is absolutely fantastic. Bruce Prichard do you know that story Brother Love.

It was not me sir! Paul we had your number... Not it!

ECW was like the Ross Perot in wrassling, felt so dumb to make that "alliance" with WCW.

Paul Heyman greatest manager since Bobby Heenan .

And 5 years later and WWE and UFC are together .

You have to wait 14 + minutes. For them to discuss about Heyman story.

Calling Paul Heyman sleazy sounds like a compliment.

That last story about 9/11 was interesting.

That is so awsome I share a bday with the great Paul heyman. Let me offer a volley sir!!

Conrad "what did Pat Patterson think" Thompson

Good show Conrad and Bruce but Bruce you have to admit smackdown was better than raw 2002 2003

Someone should talk to Bruce about how he is booking Raw and Smackdown in the shits!

So when will Conrad have a podcast with Paul Heyman?

Good job lads

Paul’s manifestations #219... the bum pushing a piano :)

The Paul Heyman voice impersonation reminded of actor Gilbert Gottfried 😅

Prichard bitter about the smackdown 6. Edge himself gas said how important heyman was

I've been listening to these episodes on RU-vid 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 :)

That intro. Lol

the story about working at Vince's house was best

Did he say "Palatial Estate?" LOL! Doesn't sound like "Mom and Dad's House..."

Dothan represent babay!

Good podcast

Paul Heyman part starts at 30:18

If these guys actually sounded like Prichard’s impersonations every time they opened their mouths respectively, I wouldn’t be able to bare it

Dr. Tom is a good one

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 Heyman has great skills behind the microphone…..

Bruces hayman impression is funny as fuck Tommy Dreamer turnt the lights out funny guy 😂😂😂😂

Paul Heyman is Beelzebub

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

Working under Stephanie McMahon sounds pretty awful.

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 😂😂😂

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.

Not sure if Bruce's Paul Heyman is more Curtis Armstrong or Wallace Shawn

Who is Dup thats gettN dem KAT Guts?

Conspiracy theory: conrad won his fsther in law over by creating a series of podcasts where he gaslights his father in laws coworkers

29:20 Conrad realizes Hey man is a joke and he is disgusted priceless...

Can anyone give me the timestamp the when bruce (paul) said "sir. I will be kicking your ass. Sir"?

@58.00.00 Conrad at his best - good man!!

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!”

1:00:45 - 1:01:14 😂😂😂😂

Paul haymen is a family member of mine.

The least surprising thing about Paul Heyman is that he has mob connections.

Who did he say was “getting them guts” in relation to the Kat?

Paul Heyman should be on Survivor

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 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

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.

Even with a bad neck I wouldn't fuck with Taz today much less 15-20 years ago.

Show start // 14:28

1:14 - the unamerican. Lance and Christian

Bruce puts over Paul Heyman like a dude putting over his ex wife's new husband

33:35 who was getting them guts?

The 9/11 story 😂

Paul heymans legacy will be ecw then brock and then the tribal chief Roman reigns

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 RU-vid, 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 RU-vid 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

Heyman is such a carny lol

1:49:17 Heyman fold? I wonder if there's a Heyman flap