At one point during the broadcast Cole brought up their history together and McMahon was furious. Over the headset he said, “Michael you stupid son of a b****. Why the f*** would you say something like that?” Cole froze and Lawler picked up the slack for a few minutes while Cole regained his composure.
Ross notes that Mick Foley couldn’t take that verbal punishment, joking that his own father didn’t talk to him the way McMahon did through his headset. Tazz also wasn’t a fan of that environment. Lawler recalls one night during a live show, McMahon got so angry he told Tazz and his partner to take off their headsets and walk to the back.
Ross can recall McMahon screaming at him to say something one night. The segment passed and Ross didn’t say it because he didn’t think it made sense. When they went to commercial Ross knew he’d be screamed at again by McMahon but instead McMahon told him he was right to not say it. This is an example of McMahon changing his mind in a split second, and Ross actually got rewarded for going against the boss’ orders just a few minutes prior.
Jericho asks Lawler where he came up with all his terrific one-liners. Lawler says he read a book by Louis Safian called “101 Insults”. He jokes that he made a living from that book.
