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Triple H

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1529 total appearances

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All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Triple H on WWE's Evolution, the Rise of the Antihero, and the Psychology of Stardom

It doesn't work.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Triple H on WWE's Evolution, the Rise of the Antihero, and the Psychology of Stardom

They know the truth.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Triple H on WWE's Evolution, the Rise of the Antihero, and the Psychology of Stardom

So today you have to sort of blend who you are real life with the character that you play and sort of blur this line, blur this line of the fourth wall of, was that real?

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Triple H on WWE's Evolution, the Rise of the Antihero, and the Psychology of Stardom

Or do these guys really not like each other?

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Triple H on WWE's Evolution, the Rise of the Antihero, and the Psychology of Stardom

Or is that really, you know, while you're putting it together backstage, we're all agreeing on where we want to go.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Triple H on WWE's Evolution, the Rise of the Antihero, and the Psychology of Stardom

And then we tell this story that people cannot tell what's real and what is fantasy.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Triple H on WWE's Evolution, the Rise of the Antihero, and the Psychology of Stardom

And that's when it gets magical.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Triple H: WWE Champs are Selfish, John Cena’s Heel Turn, & How Vince McMahon Never Loses

Yeah, I'll just I'll lead you into what's supposed to happen. So at that point in time, I'm I'm starting to get some momentum going in my career. And there is a plan in place that I am going to win a very. especially at the time, was a very prestigious tournament called the King of the Ring.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Triple H: WWE Champs are Selfish, John Cena’s Heel Turn, & How Vince McMahon Never Loses

Yeah, I'll just I'll lead you into what's supposed to happen. So at that point in time, I'm I'm starting to get some momentum going in my career. And there is a plan in place that I am going to win a very. especially at the time, was a very prestigious tournament called the King of the Ring.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Triple H: WWE Champs are Selfish, John Cena’s Heel Turn, & How Vince McMahon Never Loses

Yeah, I'll just I'll lead you into what's supposed to happen. So at that point in time, I'm I'm starting to get some momentum going in my career. And there is a plan in place that I am going to win a very. especially at the time, was a very prestigious tournament called the King of the Ring.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Triple H: WWE Champs are Selfish, John Cena’s Heel Turn, & How Vince McMahon Never Loses

I would be crowned King of the Ring, which would then launch me into a program or an angle with Shawn Michaels, who was champion. I think at the time when they brought it up, he was either champion at that time or was going to be champion by that time. And I was going to sort of escalate myself up into that higher level of being a heel, a bad guy. And Sean was a babyface champion.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Triple H: WWE Champs are Selfish, John Cena’s Heel Turn, & How Vince McMahon Never Loses

I would be crowned King of the Ring, which would then launch me into a program or an angle with Shawn Michaels, who was champion. I think at the time when they brought it up, he was either champion at that time or was going to be champion by that time. And I was going to sort of escalate myself up into that higher level of being a heel, a bad guy. And Sean was a babyface champion.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Triple H: WWE Champs are Selfish, John Cena’s Heel Turn, & How Vince McMahon Never Loses

I would be crowned King of the Ring, which would then launch me into a program or an angle with Shawn Michaels, who was champion. I think at the time when they brought it up, he was either champion at that time or was going to be champion by that time. And I was going to sort of escalate myself up into that higher level of being a heel, a bad guy. And Sean was a babyface champion.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Triple H: WWE Champs are Selfish, John Cena’s Heel Turn, & How Vince McMahon Never Loses

So we were going to go into this program differently. into that year. So it would have been a huge, what we would call push for me in the business. Yeah, yeah. It just would have really been the thing that launched me. Oh, so this is years into the business. This is not early. Yeah, this is years into the business, but early for me in WWE to a degree. Right.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Triple H: WWE Champs are Selfish, John Cena’s Heel Turn, & How Vince McMahon Never Loses

So we were going to go into this program differently. into that year. So it would have been a huge, what we would call push for me in the business. Yeah, yeah. It just would have really been the thing that launched me. Oh, so this is years into the business. This is not early. Yeah, this is years into the business, but early for me in WWE to a degree. Right.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Triple H: WWE Champs are Selfish, John Cena’s Heel Turn, & How Vince McMahon Never Loses

So we were going to go into this program differently. into that year. So it would have been a huge, what we would call push for me in the business. Yeah, yeah. It just would have really been the thing that launched me. Oh, so this is years into the business. This is not early. Yeah, this is years into the business, but early for me in WWE to a degree. Right.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Triple H: WWE Champs are Selfish, John Cena’s Heel Turn, & How Vince McMahon Never Loses

And at that same point in time, you know, the business was going through transitional changes, right? So I'm, at that time, I'm still Hunter Hearst Helmsley. I'm the blue blood snob. There's still like, everybody's got to have

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Triple H: WWE Champs are Selfish, John Cena’s Heel Turn, & How Vince McMahon Never Loses

And at that same point in time, you know, the business was going through transitional changes, right? So I'm, at that time, I'm still Hunter Hearst Helmsley. I'm the blue blood snob. There's still like, everybody's got to have

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Triple H: WWE Champs are Selfish, John Cena’s Heel Turn, & How Vince McMahon Never Loses

And at that same point in time, you know, the business was going through transitional changes, right? So I'm, at that time, I'm still Hunter Hearst Helmsley. I'm the blue blood snob. There's still like, everybody's got to have

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Triple H: WWE Champs are Selfish, John Cena’s Heel Turn, & How Vince McMahon Never Loses

sort of gimmicks and characters that are not necessarily just like you're a wrestler, you're a fireman or a cop or the clown or whatever it is that the gimmicks are larger than life sort of cartoony characters. Um, But backstage, there's a group of us that hang out together that were known as The Click.