The morning of the show, Brisco asked McMahon who knew about the plan besides them and Michaels, with the response being that Kevin Dunn knew so as to be able to run the production truck as line producer and have all of the production elements in place. “Whether Shawn went and told his inner circle guys, I don’t think he did, because nobody came up to me during the course of the day,” Brisco explained. “Which if you know something, you’re gonna come feel me out to see if I know something, […] But Earl didn’t know until the music was hit. It was something I don’t think I would try to put myself through again today, or put anybody else through, especially a friend like Earl was.”

Hebner added that he and Hart had long since buried the hatchet, with Brisco adding that he feels that he and Hart are the same way. But he felt that with Hebner being on the show and the two of them being such key players in what happened in Montreal on November 9, 1997, they had to discuss it.

“That always really bothered me, as a friend of yours, personally, that I had to put a friend in that position,” Brisco concluded. “But that was our jobs, Earl. That was what we were paid to do. And we did our jobs to the best of our ability. But all through the years, it always kind of hit me up here that I put Earl in a really unfortunate position.”

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