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Speaker 1: January eighteenth at the Castro, our annual trip to Sketch Fest.

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Speaker 1: sketch Fest dot com. Welcome to Stuff you should know,

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Speaker 1: a production of My Heart Radios How Stuff Works. Hey,

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Speaker 1: and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, There's Charles

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Speaker 1: w Chuck, Brian Jerry's not here, but all of these beautiful,

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Speaker 1: Cineo Hall. Stuff going on back there. Yeah, like Florida.

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Speaker 1: quke on the sand, people pulling up their shoes. For

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Speaker 1: dedicate this show, uh to a very special woman named

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Speaker 1: Alice Harrison, who also happens to have been Jumie's grandma.

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Speaker 1: And she passed on Monday, so she is actually a

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Speaker 1: here tonight to talk to you about legends, and in

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Speaker 1: And by the way, if you're not a fan, I

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Speaker 1: with a strap he had that he was very famous

426
00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:42,080
Speaker 1: for that one single old school wrestling singlet he choked

427
00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:44,840
Speaker 1: him with that strap and then would wring out the

428
00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:50,840
Speaker 1: sweat into his mouth. Oh just wait, are you gonna

429
00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:54,639
Speaker 1: make me say this? That He also would um like

430
00:24:54,760 --> 00:25:00,439
Speaker 1: push his opponent down, sit on them and fart, and

431
00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:03,119
Speaker 1: that sounds pretty bad. But it turns out that in

432
00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:07,159
Speaker 1: Andre the Giant fart lasted apparently no joke for like

433
00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:11,159
Speaker 1: thirty seconds, Like they would cut to commercial break and

434
00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:14,120
Speaker 1: come back and they'd still be farting on this person.

435
00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:18,200
Speaker 1: And somebody just google Andre the Giant fart and they're

436
00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:22,720
Speaker 1: like dozens of stories. Someone I can't remember who who

437
00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:25,320
Speaker 1: said it, but somebody in an interview called it an event.

438
00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:32,960
Speaker 1: I I think, uh, what, this is going pretty well,

439
00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:39,080
Speaker 1: don't you think you guys think it's going all right? Well,

440
00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:42,320
Speaker 1: that means that we might release this, which means then

441
00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:45,359
Speaker 1: that we have to work in a message break. So

442
00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:47,400
Speaker 1: we're gonna do that. If you guys will bear with us,

443
00:25:49,240 --> 00:26:13,919
Speaker 1: we will be right back after these messages. All right,

444
00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:21,360
Speaker 1: We're back, everybody. That's how it working. So I don't

445
00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:23,680
Speaker 1: know if you remember where we left off, but Andre

446
00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:27,320
Speaker 1: the Giant was parting on people and we went to

447
00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:29,280
Speaker 1: commercial break, and he went to commercial break just like

448
00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:32,280
Speaker 1: I said. So what happened uh in his career was

449
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:34,120
Speaker 1: he got really famous for being what's called the King

450
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:35,600
Speaker 1: of the Cage match. And if you don't know what

451
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:39,159
Speaker 1: wrestling is, uh, and cage matches are also called a

452
00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:42,080
Speaker 1: battle royals when they would literally put a cage around

453
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:44,600
Speaker 1: the ring and they would put twenty dudes in there

454
00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:48,960
Speaker 1: and they would all just fake hit each other until

455
00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:53,280
Speaker 1: no one could fake hit anymore, and then the last

456
00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:57,600
Speaker 1: man standing was the victor. And Andre really dominated these matches.

457
00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:00,160
Speaker 1: He was known as King of the Cage Match, which

458
00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:03,680
Speaker 1: actually that's right, um because it wasn't a joke. That

459
00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:09,159
Speaker 1: was so um. Once he hit the American circuit um,

460
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 1: his star rose very very quickly. By the mid seventies,

461
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 1: he was the highest paid wrestler in the world. He

462
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:19,280
Speaker 1: was listed as such in the Guinness Book of World Records.

463
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:23,280
Speaker 1: They said that he made a smooth four K that

464
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:25,359
Speaker 1: year in nineteen seventy four, which is a lot of

465
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:27,560
Speaker 1: cheese bank cheese. There's a lot of cheese now, but

466
00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:30,120
Speaker 1: it's cute now when you look at athletes are taken

467
00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:32,600
Speaker 1: in But he was one of the highest paid athletes

468
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:34,680
Speaker 1: period in the world. He was, and he was also

469
00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:37,680
Speaker 1: one of the most famous that There was one profile

470
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:40,320
Speaker 1: of them in Sports Illustrated that said that, with the

471
00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:43,959
Speaker 1: possible exception of Muhammad Ali, he was the most recognizable

472
00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:48,359
Speaker 1: active figure in sports in the world. That's super famous,

473
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:51,200
Speaker 1: that's right. And so what are you gonna do when

474
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:54,200
Speaker 1: you're a super famous wrestler. You're gonna start being on TV.

475
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:57,120
Speaker 1: And he did this a lot. He would show up

476
00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:59,879
Speaker 1: and if you were around in the seventies and eighties

477
00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:02,720
Speaker 1: and you watched network television, like the rest of his dead,

478
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:04,840
Speaker 1: you might see him pop up on b J and

479
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:09,800
Speaker 1: the Bear. Right, people in Maine had no idea what

480
00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:13,960
Speaker 1: b J and the Bear was. Stunned silence. He was

481
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:15,919
Speaker 1: in a two parter, b J and the Bear. Uh.

482
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:20,360
Speaker 1: He played Bigfoot a little on the nose in an

483
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:23,239
Speaker 1: episode of The Six Million Dollar Man, And there was

484
00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:25,720
Speaker 1: this one scene where Lee Major's, a star of Six

485
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:28,199
Speaker 1: Million Dollar Man, was supposed to get thrown across the

486
00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:31,320
Speaker 1: room by Bigfoot Andre the Giant, and he was a

487
00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:33,800
Speaker 1: little worried that he was going to get hurt, and

488
00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:35,960
Speaker 1: he was very pleased to find out that Andre the

489
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 1: Giant was, Like we said, a very skilled athlete and

490
00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:40,800
Speaker 1: knew how to do this stuff. But he sold the

491
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:43,600
Speaker 1: He sold the pounce basically, And if you really stop

492
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:46,840
Speaker 1: and think about the subtext of that, it strongly suggests

493
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:51,840
Speaker 1: that Lee Majors thought pro wrestling was real. Yes, it's

494
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:55,120
Speaker 1: quite possible. I thought he was just gonna injure me.

495
00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:58,160
Speaker 1: I mean he jumped on me. From what else was

496
00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 1: he end? He was in ConA in The Destroyer alongside Schwarzenegger,

497
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:07,360
Speaker 1: Wilt Chamberlaine, and Grace Jones. Weirdest cast in movie history

498
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:10,040
Speaker 1: was a weird chance. But it holds up, does it?

499
00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:13,160
Speaker 1: I mean it didn't hold up originally, so it hasn't

500
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:15,480
Speaker 1: gotten any worse about that. It holds up as well

501
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:18,840
Speaker 1: as it ever did exactly. He He was on a

502
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:23,880
Speaker 1: very famous Honeycomb's commercial where he played a giant but

503
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:28,360
Speaker 1: but wait for it, a medieval giant invading a treehouse

504
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:31,560
Speaker 1: full of kids because he was hungry for a big

505
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:35,560
Speaker 1: honey taste. That's my andre. The giant press is good,

506
00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:38,680
Speaker 1: pretty terrible. He did honey Combs, by the way in

507
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 1: the end. Uh. And there was also a very weird

508
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 1: time in the eighties where the singer Cindy Lauper somehow

509
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:49,800
Speaker 1: got involved in pro wrestling and would have She would

510
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:51,880
Speaker 1: go to events and take part in some events and

511
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:55,040
Speaker 1: then would have wrestlers being her videos. The eighties were

512
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:58,600
Speaker 1: weird everybody. It was a very strange time, but it

513
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:01,760
Speaker 1: just sort of signifies what a big pop culture icon

514
00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:03,840
Speaker 1: Andre the Giant was. He really was. He got the

515
00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:07,560
Speaker 1: big hoist at the end of the Goonies theme video.

516
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:10,600
Speaker 1: He did, Yeah, that's like, that's the big shot. That's

517
00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:13,680
Speaker 1: the one you want, you know, the hoist hoisting Cyndey Lauper.

518
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:17,040
Speaker 1: Everybody's gonna pay attention to that one. Uh. He also

519
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:19,400
Speaker 1: liked the ladies, but by all accounts he was a

520
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:21,720
Speaker 1: true gentleman. Uh. There's a quote here from one of

521
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:24,680
Speaker 1: his friends who said, everywhere he goes there are women, women,

522
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 1: women who range wildly in socio economic level, age, and

523
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:31,760
Speaker 1: even interest in pro wrestling, and he treats them all

524
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:35,080
Speaker 1: the same splendid lye Andre simply enjoys the company of women,

525
00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 1: and they enjoy his So he seems like a good dude.

526
00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:41,240
Speaker 1: He was, even by today's standards, so um. As wealthy

527
00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:43,680
Speaker 1: and famous as he was, he had extremely simple tastes

528
00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:45,840
Speaker 1: like don't forget. He was raised a farm boy in

529
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:49,560
Speaker 1: France and he definitely never lost his roots. So his

530
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:52,240
Speaker 1: favorite things to do were like hanging out with friends

531
00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:56,320
Speaker 1: unless he wanted to be alone, UM, playing cards and

532
00:30:56,360 --> 00:31:01,000
Speaker 1: specifically Uno and cribbage, where his games big time, so

533
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 1: so much so fans here, so get this, Andre the

534
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 1: Giant love cribbs so much that he would be playing

535
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:10,640
Speaker 1: at backstage constantly and sometimes he would put off going

536
00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:14,680
Speaker 1: out into the ring during a televised match because he

537
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 1: hadn't finished his cribbage game yet. He had to finish

538
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:18,800
Speaker 1: that first before he went out there. So he was

539
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:24,760
Speaker 1: like cribbage for life, c for l scribbage with a

540
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:30,640
Speaker 1: c okay making sure Whennik had to cut that part out.

541
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:33,880
Speaker 1: So now we're gonna get to the part where we

542
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:37,880
Speaker 1: talk about Andre the Giants drinking. Um. If you know

543
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:41,320
Speaker 1: anything about the guy, if you saw the documentary on HBO, UM,

544
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:44,760
Speaker 1: you know that he drank a lot, a lot because

545
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:50,320
Speaker 1: he liked to drink and he was humongous. Put those

546
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:55,600
Speaker 1: two things together and you get statistics like this. He

547
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:59,440
Speaker 1: was estimated to have consumed about seven thousand calories of

548
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 1: alcohol per day. It's right, somebody went bud break Toto,

549
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 1: I remember you. Uh. An average day or an average

550
00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:16,760
Speaker 1: beer drinking sesh, he would plow down fifty two cans

551
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 1: of beer this is a normal day, or eleven bottles

552
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:26,880
Speaker 1: of red wine. One wrestler talked about um one match

553
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 1: where Andre drank six bottles of wine before he wrestled

554
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 1: the match, and like, no one could tell, literally nobody

555
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 1: could tell he was He was famous for drinking planes

556
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:43,920
Speaker 1: dry of their mini bottles, like just gone, Like sorry, everybody,

557
00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:46,400
Speaker 1: you can't have your bloody Mary because Andre the giants here,

558
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 1: and he drank all the liquor on the plane. And

559
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:52,640
Speaker 1: as far as beers go, the most beers he ever

560
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:55,800
Speaker 1: drank in one sitting, the highest number we've seen is

561
00:32:55,800 --> 00:33:00,160
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty six in one sitting. In some

562
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:03,480
Speaker 1: people more cautious souls are like, don't be foolish. Of course,

563
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:08,640
Speaker 1: he didn't drink a hundred beers. You drink somewhere between

564
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 1: a hundred hundred fifty six is the truth. That's astounding. Uh.

565
00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:15,840
Speaker 1: And he could hold it. But none of this is

566
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 1: to say that he didn't get drunk, because he he

567
00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 1: would definitely get drunk. You can't drink a hundred nineteen beers.

568
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,800
Speaker 1: Eventually it's going to affect even the largest cow in

569
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 1: the field. So there were stories of him. Uh. One

570
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:32,920
Speaker 1: time he and Dusty Rhodes stole horse drawn carriages in

571
00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:35,960
Speaker 1: New York City and rode them around the park. A

572
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:38,520
Speaker 1: couple of stories about him passing out, like he would

573
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:40,960
Speaker 1: make it back to the hotel and just flop on

574
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,720
Speaker 1: the floor of the lobby and what do you do,

575
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:51,560
Speaker 1: bell hop, move this man. Nope. So there are two stories,

576
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:55,040
Speaker 1: one that they just threw a piano cover over him

577
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:58,040
Speaker 1: and another one and this is the best, that they

578
00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:00,400
Speaker 1: just made him a feature. They just put put a

579
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 1: velvet rope around him. It was like the eighth Wonder

580
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:08,279
Speaker 1: of the World right there. And charges of nickel per

581
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:16,280
Speaker 1: visit here. M snor smell was part. It's an event. Amazing.

582
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:21,720
Speaker 1: So um, it wasn't all salad days for Andre the Giant.

583
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:23,960
Speaker 1: While he was wrestling. When he was in Japan, when

584
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:28,040
Speaker 1: he was first starting out back in around nineteen UM,

585
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:31,840
Speaker 1: he made a rare visit to the doctor. He hated

586
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:35,719
Speaker 1: going to the doctor, hated medicine, hated anything like that. Um,

587
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:38,040
Speaker 1: But he went to see the doctors in Japan and

588
00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:40,480
Speaker 1: while he was there, they diagnosed him with the condition.

589
00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:44,320
Speaker 1: The condition Chuck was referring to earlier called acromegaly, and

590
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:49,240
Speaker 1: acromegaly is a pro tuitary gland disorder that causes gigantism.

591
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:53,120
Speaker 1: So Andre the Giant was by definition a giant. And

592
00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:56,719
Speaker 1: while he was there at the doctor's office, they said, um,

593
00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 1: you know this is actually something we can easily correct.

594
00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:01,120
Speaker 1: We used to to kind of get in there and

595
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:03,120
Speaker 1: you you have a legion or a tumor on your

596
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 1: protutory glam. We can treat it and this will cease,

597
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:10,600
Speaker 1: this will stop. And he said, no, it's okay. And

598
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 1: they said, well, wait a minute. If you don't do this,

599
00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:15,560
Speaker 1: you're probably not gonna make it past fifty. He said,

600
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:19,359
Speaker 1: I said that's okay, and he leaves. And twelve years

601
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:22,440
Speaker 1: later he goes to the hospital again and the doctors

602
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:25,640
Speaker 1: do the same thing. Different doctors at Duke University. They

603
00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:28,160
Speaker 1: diagnosed him with acromegle and they say, we can treat this,

604
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:31,160
Speaker 1: and he said, no, I'm all good. He said, if

605
00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:33,200
Speaker 1: this is the size God wanted me to be, then

606
00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:36,000
Speaker 1: this is the size I'm going to remain. Very sweet.

607
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 1: He uh, he might have thought he would shrink or something,

608
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 1: because part of it was a business decision. He thought

609
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:44,479
Speaker 1: he didn't he couldn't lose his wrestling career by having

610
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:46,719
Speaker 1: a surgery. I don't know if they didn't explain it

611
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:49,160
Speaker 1: to him well or not, Like maybe he was just

612
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:51,600
Speaker 1: a little younger, because he was he continued to grow

613
00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:55,520
Speaker 1: into his thirties. He was still growing right, and with

614
00:35:55,600 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 1: acromegle in particular, UM, it causes obviously, it's a runaway

615
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:03,479
Speaker 1: growth hormone that's being produced by your petteritary plan because

616
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:07,120
Speaker 1: something's leaning on it. And um, from this, you keep

617
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:10,320
Speaker 1: growing and growing well into your thirties, and your bones

618
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:13,439
Speaker 1: grow too, and often in like strange ways. So your

619
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:17,719
Speaker 1: face facial features just change. Um, your bones get way

620
00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:20,920
Speaker 1: denser and bigger than than it would be normal. Um,

621
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:24,720
Speaker 1: you also have secondary stuff like carpal tunnel and arthritis

622
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:27,719
Speaker 1: and diabetes and things like this. So, um, it's not

623
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:30,360
Speaker 1: a good condition to have. And it also can be

624
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:34,000
Speaker 1: very psychologically damaging too. And you could say that it

625
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:37,360
Speaker 1: definitely had an impact on the psyche of Andre the

626
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:39,880
Speaker 1: Giant as well. Yeah, it was very sad he was

627
00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 1: you know, you think about the world that sort of

628
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:44,720
Speaker 1: made for average sized folks, and you don't think about

629
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:47,760
Speaker 1: the fact that being seven foot four or seven ft

630
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:50,600
Speaker 1: tall or six eight in five hundred pounds and what

631
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:52,759
Speaker 1: that does to your life and just moving around in

632
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:54,960
Speaker 1: the world, and it was tough on him. He would

633
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 1: find himself seated like on the floor of a van

634
00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:01,520
Speaker 1: because he couldn't sit in the seat. Um, think about

635
00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 1: when he's flying on a plane. There are pictures of

636
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:06,760
Speaker 1: him on airplanes where he's occupying three rows of seats,

637
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:08,920
Speaker 1: which is great because he was rich and famous and

638
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:12,680
Speaker 1: they could accommodate him. But think about going to the bathroom,

639
00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:16,400
Speaker 1: Like I can barely fit in an airplane bathroom. They're terrible.

640
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:18,520
Speaker 1: Under the Giant couldn't even think about it. So he

641
00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:22,600
Speaker 1: had to suffer indignities like getting flight attendants to hold

642
00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:25,680
Speaker 1: up curtains so he could urinate in a bucket on

643
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:27,640
Speaker 1: a flight, like on a long flight if he couldn't

644
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:29,359
Speaker 1: hold it that long, and everyone on the plane would

645
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:32,040
Speaker 1: just suddenly talk very loudly about anything but the fact

646
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:34,440
Speaker 1: that Under the Giant was peeing into an ice bucket

647
00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:38,440
Speaker 1: right over there by the way, Randy the matchaman Stabbors,

648
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:43,440
Speaker 1: you could pop right into any airplane bathroom. Please right in.

649
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:55,360
Speaker 1: I slipped right in. Oh man, nice callback. But like

650
00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:57,160
Speaker 1: I said, he did have money and he was famous,

651
00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:00,000
Speaker 1: so they could accommodate him as much as possible. Ben

652
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:04,480
Speaker 1: So McMahon. But this extra large van that was super

653
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:07,160
Speaker 1: beefed up and it had the roof popped up in

654
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:10,800
Speaker 1: an extra large couch inside. I know this is Florida's

655
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:16,920
Speaker 1: You're all like, so a van, right? He had a

656
00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:20,200
Speaker 1: party van, is what you're saying. Yeah, there's like a

657
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:22,800
Speaker 1: wizard writing a unicorn peting on the side. You know,

658
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:28,680
Speaker 1: a van. They're driven by man. But there's one very

659
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:30,799
Speaker 1: sad quote he had where he said, I would give

660
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:32,799
Speaker 1: much money to be able to spend one day per

661
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:35,400
Speaker 1: week as a man of regular size. I would shop,

662
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:37,680
Speaker 1: I would go to the cinema, and I would drive

663
00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:40,680
Speaker 1: around in a sports car or walk down Fifth Avenue

664
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:43,759
Speaker 1: and stare at other people for a change. Yeah, oh

665
00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:47,360
Speaker 1: it's right, because here's the thing. He had two choices

666
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:50,280
Speaker 1: every day, or really one choice. He could either hide

667
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 1: or go out and endure the spotlight. Because I think

668
00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:55,719
Speaker 1: it was whole. Cogan said, you know, other wrestlers can

669
00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:57,560
Speaker 1: put on it. Dis Guys can go like find a

670
00:38:57,640 --> 00:38:59,920
Speaker 1: dark corner in a bar or restaurant just kind of

671
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:02,560
Speaker 1: lay low under the giant couldn't do that. Whether he

672
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:06,160
Speaker 1: was a famous wrestler or not, the world felt entitled

673
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:09,000
Speaker 1: to gawk at him whenever he was out on the street.

674
00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:11,440
Speaker 1: And because he was famous, that actually didn't help. It

675
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 1: actually made things worse because when he went to bars,

676
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 1: um drunks would try to pick fights with them or

677
00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:19,480
Speaker 1: pull knives on him, and he'd have to like break

678
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 1: their ribs just to get him to go away, which

679
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:25,280
Speaker 1: he did actually, Um. And then even people who didn't

680
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:27,920
Speaker 1: pull knives could still get to them, like they would

681
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:30,600
Speaker 1: just be like, jeez, look at that on that guy.

682
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 1: He's huge, you know, that kind of stuff as he's

683
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:36,880
Speaker 1: walking down the street. And he would actually cry and

684
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:39,239
Speaker 1: private like he was a very sensitive guy and that

685
00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:45,000
Speaker 1: kind of stuff got to him. Terry, we'll retake this

686
00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:53,480
Speaker 1: in the studio. He loved kids, but uh, kids were

687
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:56,840
Speaker 1: afraid of him, which was very heartbreaking. Um. He was

688
00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:58,680
Speaker 1: very gentle with kids, he said, I try to be

689
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:01,520
Speaker 1: very soft with children. I don't want them to fear me.

690
00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:03,160
Speaker 1: But often when I go to the homes of people

691
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:05,560
Speaker 1: who have kids that will run for me, even though

692
00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:08,080
Speaker 1: they've seen me on television. I understand why they do this,

693
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:11,880
Speaker 1: but it's a sad feeling for me even so. So,

694
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:17,400
Speaker 1: it's a pretty surprising paradox that somebody who's who's all

695
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:19,719
Speaker 1: like the sum total of their issues would be found

696
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:22,000
Speaker 1: in this condition and who had such trouble making it

697
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 1: through the world would choose pro wrestling as a career

698
00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:28,239
Speaker 1: because he had to travel all the time, Like during

699
00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:31,239
Speaker 1: the seventies, he would wrestle three hundred and thirty to

700
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:34,960
Speaker 1: three hundred and forty nights a year, almost always in

701
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:38,520
Speaker 1: a different city every night. Like this is someone who

702
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:41,040
Speaker 1: really valued a leap year, you know what I mean,

703
00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:47,879
Speaker 1: Like it meant something to him when he got breaks though,

704
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:50,439
Speaker 1: those rare breaks that he would get, he would go home.

705
00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:52,560
Speaker 1: And his home in the United States ended up being

706
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:55,520
Speaker 1: in North Carolina in a town called Ellerby, Uh. He

707
00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:58,279
Speaker 1: bought a ranch there in ninety seven, little ranch house

708
00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:02,520
Speaker 1: and acre wasn't over the top. It was very kind

709
00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 1: of a modest home. But he loved the land. He

710
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:08,560
Speaker 1: had Rottweiler's and he had cattle, and he had horses,

711
00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:11,000
Speaker 1: and he had a Honda a TV that he would

712
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:14,600
Speaker 1: ride around. Um there was this couple Frenchie and Jackie

713
00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:16,759
Speaker 1: that were his some of his best friends, and they

714
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:18,480
Speaker 1: kind of took care of the place while he was gone.

715
00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 1: And that was really um, that's really where he went

716
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:23,960
Speaker 1: to to just be Andre the Giant, where he knew

717
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:25,760
Speaker 1: that he was among friends and loved ones and wouldn't

718
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 1: be stared and talked at. He also get this, I

719
00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:31,400
Speaker 1: didn't realize this. You mean told me this today. He

720
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:35,360
Speaker 1: had a fish camp called Giants Fish Camp in Stepner, Florida,

721
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:38,560
Speaker 1: near Sara Sota. Has anybody ever heard of it? Yeah, well,

722
00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:41,040
Speaker 1: apparently that was Andre the Giants Fish Camp. And it

723
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:44,640
Speaker 1: turns out my father in law and he's grandpa, who's

724
00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:48,600
Speaker 1: my father in law's dad, regardless of your grandpa in law. Yeah,

725
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:51,720
Speaker 1: they would go fishing at this fish camp with Andre

726
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:54,400
Speaker 1: the Giant. Like my father in law used to go

727
00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:58,000
Speaker 1: fishing with Andre the Giant. And he said, Andrea the

728
00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:00,520
Speaker 1: Giant used to carry this like custom aid at or

729
00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:02,799
Speaker 1: on deck chair with special cushions around in the back

730
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:05,520
Speaker 1: of his pickup truck because this was like the chair.

731
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:08,200
Speaker 1: He considered it was his chair. And he would sell

732
00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 1: rings off of his giant fingers that he had autographed

733
00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:15,600
Speaker 1: and apparently he gave one to my father in law. Yes,

734
00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:21,520
Speaker 1: and he doesn't know where it is. Yeah, a man

735
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:24,720
Speaker 1: is right, we'll find him one day. I just pictured

736
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 1: him telling you the story over dinner as he takes

737
00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:29,400
Speaker 1: like this napkin ring off and just sets it on

738
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:32,960
Speaker 1: the table and nobody knows that or a bracelet just

739
00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:37,440
Speaker 1: kind of slyly slides off of his hand. Yeah, I

740
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:40,560
Speaker 1: thought that was pretty cool. Oh and um, so you

741
00:42:40,719 --> 00:42:43,360
Speaker 1: mean's grandpa and Andre the Giant would speak Polish to

742
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:47,600
Speaker 1: one another. Yeah, yeah, gets some Polish people in the audience.

743
00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:52,120
Speaker 1: Like all right, I thought you're gonna say it was like,

744
00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:56,480
Speaker 1: you mean's prom choker or something, right, so you know,

745
00:42:56,560 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 1: the the classic prom choker from Andre the Giant sweaty fingers.

746
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:04,680
Speaker 1: So um. He also shopped on QBC a lot on

747
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:10,400
Speaker 1: another little fact about him, very cute. So by the

748
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:14,239
Speaker 1: early nineteen eighties, Uh, by this point it was the WWF.

749
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:18,160
Speaker 1: It was um a really really big spectacle in the US,

750
00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:20,400
Speaker 1: and they had Andre the Giant to thank for a

751
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:23,000
Speaker 1: lot of this um everywhere he went. It was a

752
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:26,040
Speaker 1: big deal. It was getting TV viewers from around the

753
00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:30,520
Speaker 1: world more into wrestling and wrestlers benefited just from wrestling

754
00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:33,319
Speaker 1: with him. Even losing against him was a big deal

755
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:35,160
Speaker 1: because you know, you'd be on TV in front of

756
00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 1: the biggest audiences or at Madison Square Garden to a

757
00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:41,480
Speaker 1: sold out show. And uh no one benefited more from

758
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:46,720
Speaker 1: this relationship than a wrestler named hul Cogan. So Whole Cogan,

759
00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 1: did you guys know that he started out as a heel,

760
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:51,920
Speaker 1: as a bad guy. He's a bad guy. I had

761
00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:56,840
Speaker 1: no idea. Well, he finally made the conversion over to

762
00:43:57,160 --> 00:44:00,520
Speaker 1: a face, and when he did, he became the w

763
00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:04,120
Speaker 1: ws like biggest star at a time when the w

764
00:44:04,120 --> 00:44:06,560
Speaker 1: w F By this time they dropped that third w

765
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:09,759
Speaker 1: UM was as big as it as it ever was

766
00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:11,719
Speaker 1: as a matter of fact. So he was huge and

767
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:14,719
Speaker 1: he had Andre the Giant to thank for that largely.

768
00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:19,799
Speaker 1: And there was this ongoing k fabe fake um rivalry

769
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:22,400
Speaker 1: friendship between Andre the Giant and Whole Cooke and they

770
00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:25,680
Speaker 1: were kind of friend of these on the WWF UM

771
00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:30,040
Speaker 1: And then WrestleMania two came, I think in X and

772
00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:32,920
Speaker 1: Andre the Giant one a twenty man battle roy how

773
00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:35,640
Speaker 1: and he said, you know what, that's it. I'm good.

774
00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:37,640
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go into summer retirement. I'm not going to

775
00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:41,920
Speaker 1: officially retire, but my body's breaking down from acromegaly. I

776
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:45,000
Speaker 1: drink fifty two beers a day on an average day.

777
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:47,120
Speaker 1: I think I'm good. I'm gonna just gonna go off

778
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:49,879
Speaker 1: and rest a little bit, and rather than wrestle, I'm

779
00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:52,840
Speaker 1: gonna focus on a little film. I just got hired

780
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:56,239
Speaker 1: to to be an actor and called The Princess Bride.

781
00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:01,400
Speaker 1: I saw people pre happening when you said a little film.

782
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:07,840
Speaker 1: This lady on the front row he said it, so,

783
00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:12,880
Speaker 1: uh yeah. Fans of that movie anyone, clearly, I've never

784
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:17,799
Speaker 1: I've never met anyone that was like, yeah, it sucked right,

785
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:24,440
Speaker 1: totally fake. You know the A few weeks ago they

786
00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:28,759
Speaker 1: announced they were remaking it. People are going, yeah, right,

787
00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:30,759
Speaker 1: people are going nuts, and then other people are like,

788
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:33,680
Speaker 1: who cares, It doesn't take away from the original. People

789
00:45:33,719 --> 00:45:36,080
Speaker 1: are arguing on the internet if you believe that this

790
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:38,480
Speaker 1: is no normally I do see. I am kind of like,

791
00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:40,840
Speaker 1: it doesn't do anything to detract from the originals. We

792
00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:43,360
Speaker 1: don't go see it. This one violates the laws of

793
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:48,239
Speaker 1: the universe. Remaking The Princess Pride, this one matters. Let's

794
00:45:48,239 --> 00:45:50,200
Speaker 1: get down the street, because you know that Physic is

795
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:53,480
Speaker 1: going to be like the Rock or somebody, and I

796
00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:56,680
Speaker 1: like the Rock. He's fine, he'll try a little too hard.

797
00:45:58,719 --> 00:46:01,680
Speaker 1: He couldn't be physic. Now I'm worried the rock is

798
00:46:01,719 --> 00:46:05,680
Speaker 1: going to be pheasant? Who else? I'm not going to

799
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:10,680
Speaker 1: sleep tonight. There's a fruit fly gene. Did you know this?

800
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:13,960
Speaker 1: That's called the physic gene because if you remove it,

801
00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:17,879
Speaker 1: it produces fruit flies of unusual size. That's right, that's

802
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:20,600
Speaker 1: not a joke. The last part was a joke. It

803
00:46:20,719 --> 00:46:24,320
Speaker 1: wasn't really a joke. It was a little one yap

804
00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:27,640
Speaker 1: on the end of it. I wish I was not here.

805
00:46:33,120 --> 00:46:35,439
Speaker 1: This part was supposed to be funny. The middle part

806
00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:38,640
Speaker 1: it's sort of be a little sad and then be

807
00:46:38,719 --> 00:46:43,080
Speaker 1: funny again at the end. We can cut all that out,

808
00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:46,279
Speaker 1: yeah we will. Can't cut reality out right now that

809
00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:53,800
Speaker 1: they love you, this is your second home. See just

810
00:46:56,320 --> 00:46:59,040
Speaker 1: say another insider joke about the billboard guy or whatever

811
00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:02,000
Speaker 1: if you feel like you're losing him. And yeah, we

812
00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:04,600
Speaker 1: know enough to stay away from Dayton to beach. Right,

813
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:13,080
Speaker 1: Oh that's great. Don't even know where I am now.

814
00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:18,280
Speaker 1: Princess Pride. That's where we are. So Rob Brianner hired

815
00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:20,880
Speaker 1: him on the advice of the writer of the book

816
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:23,120
Speaker 1: and he said, there's this guy you should hire, Andre

817
00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:28,200
Speaker 1: the Giant. Rob Brianner had never heard of him. Um,

818
00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:30,960
Speaker 1: he's like more famous in Muhammad Ali. But Rob Brier like,

819
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:33,120
Speaker 1: I don't know where he was at the time. He

820
00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:37,960
Speaker 1: was on drugs. It's not true, it could be true.

821
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:41,000
Speaker 1: So he was on all of the family, that's what

822
00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:44,200
Speaker 1: he was doing. So he didn't know who Andre the

823
00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:47,440
Speaker 1: Giant was. They sent him into audition and he couldn't

824
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:50,160
Speaker 1: understand what he was saying. And he was like, what

825
00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:51,759
Speaker 1: am I supposed to do here? And they said, just

826
00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:55,359
Speaker 1: hire Andre the Giants. Trust me. He fits the part

827
00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:57,000
Speaker 1: and he's one of the biggest stars in the world.

828
00:47:57,040 --> 00:47:59,960
Speaker 1: And he went okay, and that's it was kind of

829
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:02,239
Speaker 1: that easy. He said, we needed a giant. This guy

830
00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:06,400
Speaker 1: was a giant. I just hired the giant. So Andre

831
00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:10,600
Speaker 1: did not stop drinking during the film shoot. He continued

832
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:14,399
Speaker 1: on his normal ways. And there were three gentlemen named

833
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:18,759
Speaker 1: Chris so Randon, Kelly, carry Elise or Elvis apparently Sow.

834
00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:21,560
Speaker 1: He really pronounced it really Yeah, I've been saying Elise

835
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:24,440
Speaker 1: my whole life. Yeah, I've been saying Elvis, not Elvis.

836
00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:29,000
Speaker 1: He's riding the King's coat tails and and uh man

837
00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:31,520
Speaker 1: deep a tankin all thought that they could hang with

838
00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:35,040
Speaker 1: Andre the Giant at the bars. They were dead wrong

839
00:48:35,200 --> 00:48:37,719
Speaker 1: and they could not. So many many days on set

840
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:40,799
Speaker 1: there are reports of those three guys, Andre showing up

841
00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:43,120
Speaker 1: being like, let's go, let's do this, and those three

842
00:48:43,239 --> 00:48:46,000
Speaker 1: kind of dragging their heels. It's probably the nicest say it.

843
00:48:46,560 --> 00:48:49,319
Speaker 1: He also when he checked out of his room at

844
00:48:49,360 --> 00:48:52,080
Speaker 1: the London Hyatt after the end of his shoot, um,

845
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:55,000
Speaker 1: he had a forty thousand dollar bar tap to pay

846
00:48:55,160 --> 00:48:58,520
Speaker 1: to settle up, which means that he drank nearly all

847
00:48:58,640 --> 00:49:05,520
Speaker 1: the contents of the mini bar in his room. Little

848
00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:09,879
Speaker 1: hotel him. Yeah. See, so that began as a fact,

849
00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:14,839
Speaker 1: and then I added a joke at the end. Oh man,

850
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:19,520
Speaker 1: it's so much more fun than in the studio. So

851
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:22,840
Speaker 1: I mean, no offense, we have a good time. I

852
00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:27,120
Speaker 1: didn't take offensive, Okay, I didn't even cross my mind.

853
00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:28,560
Speaker 1: I didn't want to make it sound like we know

854
00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:31,239
Speaker 1: have fun in the studio, but when you add eight people,

855
00:49:31,239 --> 00:49:34,360
Speaker 1: it's always more fun. I'm there. I know, we have firing.

856
00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:37,239
Speaker 1: It's like Bud Bud break up in here. Where's a

857
00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:40,279
Speaker 1: lot of snapping in the studio. We have a good time,

858
00:49:41,040 --> 00:49:46,440
Speaker 1: a lot of mist uh. So Andre was really very

859
00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:49,520
Speaker 1: sweet through this whole production and very nervous about his performance.

860
00:49:49,560 --> 00:49:52,880
Speaker 1: He really really wanted to do a good job because

861
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:54,759
Speaker 1: he was on a movie set and it was a

862
00:49:54,840 --> 00:49:57,560
Speaker 1: big movie and it was a really big deal to him,

863
00:49:57,600 --> 00:50:00,520
Speaker 1: and he was very nervous. Um when he went to Toronto,

864
00:50:01,080 --> 00:50:06,960
Speaker 1: I can say Toronto here, it's Toronto. Apparently just in Toronto. Yeah,

865
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:10,600
Speaker 1: everywhere else is Toronto. Uh in Toronto. At the premiere

866
00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:13,880
Speaker 1: in ven his friend Tim White said he was actually

867
00:50:13,960 --> 00:50:16,800
Speaker 1: shaking nervous during the premiere of the movie because he

868
00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:20,680
Speaker 1: wasn't sure how the other actors were going to accept him. Um. Afterward,

869
00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:23,000
Speaker 1: when they cheered and patted him on the back and everything,

870
00:50:23,120 --> 00:50:24,960
Speaker 1: he was the happiest guy in the world, and so

871
00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:28,080
Speaker 1: was I for him, It's very sweet. Yeah, it was

872
00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:31,320
Speaker 1: a good friend huh Um. He loved his character so

873
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:34,320
Speaker 1: much he would carry a VHS copy of The Prince's

874
00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:37,239
Speaker 1: Bride around with him, not like in his bag or

875
00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:40,319
Speaker 1: in his hotel and him like around with him all right,

876
00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:45,520
Speaker 1: he would say, look right, it's probably the scale. Actually.

877
00:50:47,600 --> 00:50:54,719
Speaker 1: If anyone remembers VHS page, Um well you got me

878
00:50:54,840 --> 00:51:00,480
Speaker 1: with that, um man just threw me off. Oh oh oh.

879
00:51:00,719 --> 00:51:04,080
Speaker 1: So when he was on tour, well, like wrestling, afterward

880
00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:07,359
Speaker 1: he would he would invite like fellow wrestlers up there,

881
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:09,680
Speaker 1: his friends with to like hang out in his room.

882
00:51:10,160 --> 00:51:11,880
Speaker 1: And while he was there, he'd be like, Hey, here's

883
00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:14,080
Speaker 1: the here's the room service man. You want to order

884
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:16,239
Speaker 1: anything you want to eat or drink, and he'd wait

885
00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:19,479
Speaker 1: till it arrived, and then whoever was there would start

886
00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:21,560
Speaker 1: eating and drinking and he'd be like, hey, you want

887
00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:26,239
Speaker 1: to watch the Princess Brian now that I have you trap, yeah,

888
00:51:27,160 --> 00:51:31,319
Speaker 1: And apparently so. Landi Pafo is um Randy Savage's brother

889
00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:34,480
Speaker 1: and um and Andre was good friends with Landy Pafo.

890
00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:38,600
Speaker 1: He did. Randy loved Landy. He did this to Lanny

891
00:51:38,960 --> 00:51:42,319
Speaker 1: six times on one tour. By the end of the tour,

892
00:51:42,480 --> 00:51:45,279
Speaker 1: Landy was like dodging and like hiding behind plants when

893
00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:47,520
Speaker 1: he saw Andre because he didn't want to get invited

894
00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:49,360
Speaker 1: up to watch the Princess Bridy. I can't believe he

895
00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:52,279
Speaker 1: kept falling for it. Like after four times he was like,

896
00:51:52,920 --> 00:51:57,120
Speaker 1: all right, I'll order the steak, but we're not going

897
00:51:57,200 --> 00:52:02,120
Speaker 1: to watch the movie. Right, No, no, no, here, have dessert.

898
00:52:02,200 --> 00:52:04,799
Speaker 1: Have dessert? All right? But he said, he said, Andre

899
00:52:04,920 --> 00:52:07,040
Speaker 1: would point at the TV like when his part was

900
00:52:07,120 --> 00:52:08,960
Speaker 1: coming up, and then when his part came, and when

901
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:12,600
Speaker 1: he'd laugh and clap and ask how he did every time,

902
00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:15,600
Speaker 1: like he loved that movie and he loved that he

903
00:52:15,880 --> 00:52:18,200
Speaker 1: he had had a part in it. Love it. Uh

904
00:52:18,320 --> 00:52:21,799
Speaker 1: So during the shoot, his body was breaking down pretty bad. Though.

905
00:52:22,360 --> 00:52:24,160
Speaker 1: There was that one scene where he has to catch

906
00:52:24,320 --> 00:52:27,920
Speaker 1: Robin Wright who jumps into his arms, and Rob Renner,

907
00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:29,560
Speaker 1: when he hired him, thought like, this is great. We

908
00:52:29,640 --> 00:52:32,239
Speaker 1: have this this athlete and this wrestler and we won't

909
00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:33,759
Speaker 1: have to hire a stunt person and he can do

910
00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:35,680
Speaker 1: all this stuff. It turns out he couldn't do any

911
00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:38,319
Speaker 1: of it because because of his back, and they had

912
00:52:38,360 --> 00:52:40,560
Speaker 1: to lower Robin right down, who weighed like a hundred

913
00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:44,839
Speaker 1: pounds on cables that they didn't had to greek out

914
00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:51,280
Speaker 1: industry term. Did you do that? It was pretty impressive

915
00:52:51,920 --> 00:52:54,520
Speaker 1: and uh yeah, so it was. It was a big deal.

916
00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:56,760
Speaker 1: His body was breaking down. He was in really bad shape.

917
00:52:56,960 --> 00:52:59,200
Speaker 1: He kind of soldier through because it was important to him,

918
00:52:59,600 --> 00:53:01,920
Speaker 1: but he found himself at the end of Princess Pride

919
00:53:02,160 --> 00:53:04,520
Speaker 1: and pretty rough shape physically. He did. He also found

920
00:53:04,600 --> 00:53:08,400
Speaker 1: himself being visited in a surprise visit by Vince mcmon Jr.

921
00:53:08,480 --> 00:53:12,040
Speaker 1: Who would by then dropped the W from WWWF just

922
00:53:12,120 --> 00:53:14,440
Speaker 1: made it w w F and had overseen like its

923
00:53:14,520 --> 00:53:18,360
Speaker 1: meteoric rise. Uh. And he showed up in England trying

924
00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:21,360
Speaker 1: to convince Andre the Giant to come back to wrestling,

925
00:53:21,840 --> 00:53:23,960
Speaker 1: and Andre was like, no, no, I really shouldn't do this,

926
00:53:24,120 --> 00:53:26,960
Speaker 1: Probably the worst thing I could do. My body's breaking down.

927
00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:29,479
Speaker 1: I'm in bad shape, can't even hold hundred pound Robin

928
00:53:29,560 --> 00:53:34,600
Speaker 1: Wright pen um it's it's it's terrible. That was paraphrasing him.

929
00:53:34,960 --> 00:53:38,600
Speaker 1: Um and Vince McMahon wouldn't take no for an answer

930
00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:41,720
Speaker 1: and finally managed to break down his resistance and talked

931
00:53:41,840 --> 00:53:45,800
Speaker 1: him into getting back surgery and arranged for it in England.

932
00:53:46,280 --> 00:53:49,040
Speaker 1: And that is I said before um Under the Giant

933
00:53:49,160 --> 00:53:51,520
Speaker 1: didn't even like to go to the doctor's office, wouldn't

934
00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:54,200
Speaker 1: take pills, wouldn't take medications, didn't even take a list

935
00:53:54,239 --> 00:53:59,080
Speaker 1: of drugs in the eighties in wrestling, like he just

936
00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:02,239
Speaker 1: all he did was dream that was his medication drinking. UM.

937
00:54:02,560 --> 00:54:05,160
Speaker 1: So the fact that he agreed to undergo back surgery,

938
00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:08,320
Speaker 1: it's pretty baffling, but he did. He underwent back surgery,

939
00:54:09,160 --> 00:54:11,200
Speaker 1: like I said, in England, And there's some urban legends

940
00:54:11,239 --> 00:54:14,680
Speaker 1: about the surgery, like that they had to use oversized

941
00:54:15,120 --> 00:54:18,759
Speaker 1: um surgical tools meant for a large animal veterinarian may

942
00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:22,160
Speaker 1: or may not be true, but that the anesthesiologists UM

943
00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:25,520
Speaker 1: had to guess at how much anesthesia to use. I'm

944
00:54:25,560 --> 00:54:28,759
Speaker 1: sure that's super correct, but he did it based on

945
00:54:29,480 --> 00:54:32,880
Speaker 1: UM how much alcohol Andre the giant drank, Like how

946
00:54:32,960 --> 00:54:34,960
Speaker 1: much does it take for him to fall up out

947
00:54:35,080 --> 00:54:37,960
Speaker 1: in the lobby of a hotel exactly what they call

948
00:54:38,040 --> 00:54:42,600
Speaker 1: a piano cover night? How much is that? So? Uh,

949
00:54:42,760 --> 00:54:45,239
Speaker 1: it depends on here talking to UM to see how

950
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:48,440
Speaker 1: this is viewed. Vince McMahon and big wrestling fans UM

951
00:54:48,560 --> 00:54:51,040
Speaker 1: think they did him a big favor by revitalizing his

952
00:54:51,160 --> 00:54:54,399
Speaker 1: career and bringing back in the spotlight. UM. Other people

953
00:54:54,640 --> 00:54:57,080
Speaker 1: like us who are a little more contrarian to that

954
00:54:57,120 --> 00:54:59,399
Speaker 1: point of view, say, no, you took advantage of this guy.

955
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:02,920
Speaker 1: Is obviously breaking down, um, just to sell more tickets

956
00:55:03,200 --> 00:55:05,600
Speaker 1: and to exploit him, uh kind of till the end

957
00:55:05,640 --> 00:55:08,200
Speaker 1: of his life, and then kicking him out into the

958
00:55:08,239 --> 00:55:11,040
Speaker 1: cold when you're done with them, which some people say,

959
00:55:11,440 --> 00:55:18,359
Speaker 1: booms McMahon, boooo, there you go. So now we can't

960
00:55:18,400 --> 00:55:21,880
Speaker 1: wait too what we have to take another message. Just

961
00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:25,200
Speaker 1: realized sorry, the spirit of the lizard on the toilet

962
00:55:25,320 --> 00:55:28,400
Speaker 1: just spoke to me said, Josh, don't blow it. This

963
00:55:28,560 --> 00:55:30,560
Speaker 1: is a really good one. You may release it. You

964
00:55:30,640 --> 00:55:32,839
Speaker 1: gotta get a second one in there. So everybody, don't

965
00:55:32,880 --> 00:55:37,359
Speaker 1: pee on me, if you'll, if you'll bear with us, yeah,

966
00:55:37,480 --> 00:55:41,080
Speaker 1: really it's a pretty dangerous spot. Um, if you'll bear

967
00:55:41,200 --> 00:56:03,160
Speaker 1: with us, we will be right back. All right, We're

968
00:56:03,200 --> 00:56:07,839
Speaker 1: back again everyone. You guys like that every time, huh

969
00:56:08,280 --> 00:56:14,760
Speaker 1: to uh to recap where we left Andre the giant

970
00:56:15,560 --> 00:56:19,319
Speaker 1: body breaking down, Vince McMahon brings him back. And now

971
00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:23,719
Speaker 1: we stumble upon a little event called WrestleMania three, which

972
00:56:24,040 --> 00:56:27,560
Speaker 1: if you're a wrestling fan, it's this legendary event. It

973
00:56:27,680 --> 00:56:30,239
Speaker 1: was held in Detroit at the Pontiac Silver Dome. They

974
00:56:30,280 --> 00:56:36,160
Speaker 1: had plenty of smoke, trust me. Nine people at the

975
00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:39,840
Speaker 1: Pontiac Silver Dome in Michigan, and it was one of

976
00:56:39,880 --> 00:56:42,680
Speaker 1: the biggest sporting events sort of in history up to

977
00:56:42,840 --> 00:56:46,560
Speaker 1: that point. And for this match, which whole Cogan wrote,

978
00:56:47,040 --> 00:56:48,920
Speaker 1: and when Lee Majors heard that, he's like wait what

979
00:56:51,239 --> 00:56:54,239
Speaker 1: he uh? Huld Cogan wrote the match, but Andre the

980
00:56:54,360 --> 00:56:57,880
Speaker 1: Giant was was toying with him for weeks leading up

981
00:56:57,920 --> 00:57:00,719
Speaker 1: to it because in the match, whole Cogan becomes like

982
00:57:00,840 --> 00:57:04,040
Speaker 1: the champ of the WWF and it's a big deal.

983
00:57:04,480 --> 00:57:06,920
Speaker 1: But um, when he would say like, hey, Andrea, if

984
00:57:06,960 --> 00:57:08,680
Speaker 1: you have you seen the script, are you good with it?

985
00:57:09,080 --> 00:57:11,319
Speaker 1: Andrea would just say something like yeah, yeah, don't worry

986
00:57:11,320 --> 00:57:13,400
Speaker 1: about it, we'll work it out in the ring or whatever,

987
00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:16,520
Speaker 1: and would not tell Hulk like, yes, you're going to win,

988
00:57:16,680 --> 00:57:19,280
Speaker 1: We'll go along with your script. And in fact, whole

989
00:57:19,360 --> 00:57:21,160
Speaker 1: Cogan didn't know he was going to win until the

990
00:57:21,320 --> 00:57:24,200
Speaker 1: very end of this match, when Andre the Giant calls

991
00:57:24,360 --> 00:57:29,040
Speaker 1: for a body slam and a leg drop. And apparently

992
00:57:29,120 --> 00:57:32,160
Speaker 1: when whole Cogan body slammed Andre the Giant, he pulled

993
00:57:32,200 --> 00:57:35,840
Speaker 1: a bicep and a quadricep trying to pick him up,

994
00:57:36,160 --> 00:57:38,280
Speaker 1: and Andre the Giant was even like pressing off of

995
00:57:38,400 --> 00:57:41,560
Speaker 1: him to help him and the whole Cogan still injured himself,

996
00:57:41,640 --> 00:57:43,960
Speaker 1: which you're gonna do when you pick up Andre the

997
00:57:44,040 --> 00:57:46,280
Speaker 1: Giant's just part and parcel with it. But he did

998
00:57:46,360 --> 00:57:50,640
Speaker 1: win and the crowd went nuts. That's right after wrestleman

999
00:57:50,760 --> 00:57:54,040
Speaker 1: A three. He continued wrestling because the w WF sort

1000
00:57:54,040 --> 00:57:55,680
Speaker 1: of kicked him to the curve. It was very sad,

1001
00:57:56,280 --> 00:57:58,640
Speaker 1: so he went back to where he started. He went

1002
00:57:58,840 --> 00:58:02,160
Speaker 1: to Japan and to mex Ago and wrestled on those

1003
00:58:02,200 --> 00:58:05,040
Speaker 1: circuits for a little while. Um he fought his last

1004
00:58:05,120 --> 00:58:08,360
Speaker 1: match in Japan just one month before he died, and

1005
00:58:08,480 --> 00:58:10,720
Speaker 1: by that time he had wrestled more than five thousand

1006
00:58:10,800 --> 00:58:15,480
Speaker 1: matches in his career. Times it's crazy. So towards the end,

1007
00:58:16,160 --> 00:58:18,480
Speaker 1: um he was like, nobody kicks Andre the Giant of

1008
00:58:18,520 --> 00:58:20,680
Speaker 1: the Curb. I'm going to wrestle on my own terms.

1009
00:58:21,040 --> 00:58:23,800
Speaker 1: And he started touring all over the place and he

1010
00:58:23,960 --> 00:58:26,280
Speaker 1: became a little more of like a booster. So he

1011
00:58:26,440 --> 00:58:28,680
Speaker 1: was like big time into tag team matches by them,

1012
00:58:28,800 --> 00:58:32,200
Speaker 1: because well, one he could walk out to the ring

1013
00:58:32,960 --> 00:58:35,680
Speaker 1: um with his arms flung over his tag team partner,

1014
00:58:35,760 --> 00:58:37,680
Speaker 1: which you know, people in the crowd was like, oh

1015
00:58:37,800 --> 00:58:40,640
Speaker 1: that's great, they're like total teammates. But really Andre was

1016
00:58:40,720 --> 00:58:43,440
Speaker 1: using the guy as a cane. And then also he

1017
00:58:43,520 --> 00:58:45,240
Speaker 1: could just kind of stand in the corner and like

1018
00:58:45,320 --> 00:58:49,000
Speaker 1: play up the drama but not actually wrestle. And the fans,

1019
00:58:49,080 --> 00:58:51,560
Speaker 1: though they were they were just happy he was there. Yeah,

1020
00:58:51,600 --> 00:58:53,840
Speaker 1: they didn't care. Just having him in the building was enough.

1021
00:58:53,920 --> 00:58:57,240
Speaker 1: It was really really pretty cool. So here we are

1022
00:58:57,320 --> 00:59:01,600
Speaker 1: at the end. Very sadly. Andre's father, Boris, was approaching

1023
00:59:01,680 --> 00:59:05,520
Speaker 1: death in January of the age of eighty seven, and

1024
00:59:05,640 --> 00:59:07,919
Speaker 1: Andre went to see him in France before he died.

1025
00:59:08,520 --> 00:59:11,720
Speaker 1: He stayed there for his father's funeral and then he

1026
00:59:11,840 --> 00:59:15,720
Speaker 1: would die two weeks after that in France. So on

1027
00:59:15,840 --> 00:59:18,520
Speaker 1: the last day on Earth for Andre the Giant, he

1028
00:59:18,600 --> 00:59:20,760
Speaker 1: did what he loved more than anything else. He hung

1029
00:59:20,800 --> 00:59:24,000
Speaker 1: out with his oldest friends from his childhood in France,

1030
00:59:24,160 --> 00:59:28,040
Speaker 1: his family there, played tons of cribbage and drank lots

1031
00:59:28,120 --> 00:59:31,480
Speaker 1: and lots of really good French wine, farted on everybody,

1032
00:59:33,520 --> 00:59:35,800
Speaker 1: and he got dropped off at a hotel in Paris

1033
00:59:35,960 --> 00:59:37,880
Speaker 1: that he was staying at and he went up the

1034
00:59:37,920 --> 00:59:39,800
Speaker 1: stairs and that was the last time anyone saw him alive.

1035
00:59:40,200 --> 00:59:42,640
Speaker 1: The next morning, when he was supposed to be picked up.

1036
00:59:43,120 --> 00:59:44,920
Speaker 1: They went up to his room and knocked when he

1037
00:59:44,960 --> 00:59:47,600
Speaker 1: didn't appear, and finally opened up the door and found

1038
00:59:47,920 --> 00:59:50,520
Speaker 1: Andre the Giant dead in bed. He had died in

1039
00:59:50,840 --> 00:59:53,920
Speaker 1: the night of heart failure. Because the thing with a

1040
00:59:54,040 --> 00:59:57,959
Speaker 1: chromegley is um most of your body grows and grows

1041
00:59:58,000 --> 01:00:00,520
Speaker 1: and grows, but the heart doesn't, and the heart gets

1042
01:00:00,640 --> 01:00:03,920
Speaker 1: taxed over over, you know, forty six years in the

1043
01:00:04,000 --> 01:00:06,640
Speaker 1: case of Andre the Giant, until it just can't beat

1044
01:00:06,680 --> 01:00:09,360
Speaker 1: any longer. And so that's what happened Andre the Giant.

1045
01:00:09,400 --> 01:00:12,040
Speaker 1: His heart just gave out. Uh So there wasn't a

1046
01:00:12,080 --> 01:00:15,600
Speaker 1: crematorium in France that could handle his body. So they

1047
01:00:16,160 --> 01:00:19,640
Speaker 1: flew him back to North Carolina and a giant custom

1048
01:00:19,680 --> 01:00:23,560
Speaker 1: built coffin and apparently did the WWF steal the coffin,

1049
01:00:24,400 --> 01:00:26,520
Speaker 1: that's the word you could use. Yeah, after they flew

1050
01:00:26,600 --> 01:00:29,160
Speaker 1: him back. Yeah. Yeah, They didn't like like roll his

1051
01:00:29,280 --> 01:00:31,440
Speaker 1: body out mid flight or something. They just basically went

1052
01:00:31,600 --> 01:00:35,640
Speaker 1: until he was to fly him back. No no, no, no, okay,

1053
01:00:35,640 --> 01:00:37,320
Speaker 1: They flew Hi back and then stall it, yes, to

1054
01:00:37,520 --> 01:00:40,400
Speaker 1: like basically take the headquarters for to put on display.

1055
01:00:41,000 --> 01:00:44,840
Speaker 1: You see, okay, you see, Chuck, you see, we're working

1056
01:00:44,880 --> 01:00:49,800
Speaker 1: it out. Mid show. So the w w E at

1057
01:00:49,880 --> 01:00:52,400
Speaker 1: this point established its Hall of Fame, and Andre the

1058
01:00:52,440 --> 01:00:54,880
Speaker 1: Giant was the very first and only inductee in that

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Speaker 1: inaugural class. And every year now the w w E

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01:00:58,600 --> 01:01:01,680
Speaker 1: still holds a Battle Royal all Uh named after Andre

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01:01:01,800 --> 01:01:04,200
Speaker 1: the Giant in his honor, which is, if you stop him,

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01:01:04,240 --> 01:01:08,160
Speaker 1: think about it, the pinnacle of human existence to have

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Speaker 1: a Battle Royale held in your name every year, like

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01:01:12,080 --> 01:01:14,600
Speaker 1: each one of us in this room should aspire to

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Speaker 1: that in this Okay, let's make a pact right now, everybody,

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01:01:21,800 --> 01:01:25,640
Speaker 1: we can do it. So um. I mentioned his daughter

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01:01:25,800 --> 01:01:28,400
Speaker 1: Robin earlier and the fact that they weren't close, and

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Speaker 1: this is sort of one of the sad parts of

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01:01:30,120 --> 01:01:32,520
Speaker 1: the of his life was that, you know, when you're

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01:01:32,560 --> 01:01:35,880
Speaker 1: wrestling five thousand times in a career, in three thirty

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01:01:35,960 --> 01:01:38,920
Speaker 1: nights a year, you're not like anyone in the entertainment

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01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:41,360
Speaker 1: business who tours and travels a lot. You're not gonna

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01:01:41,360 --> 01:01:43,919
Speaker 1: be around your family much. So he had a daughter

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01:01:44,080 --> 01:01:46,640
Speaker 1: that he did not get to see that much. Um

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01:01:47,080 --> 01:01:48,960
Speaker 1: he had an ex wife that he did not get

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01:01:49,000 --> 01:01:50,840
Speaker 1: along with at all, which didn't help matters. I don't

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01:01:50,880 --> 01:01:54,560
Speaker 1: think they were ever actually married an okay, so an

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01:01:54,720 --> 01:01:56,560
Speaker 1: X that didn't get along with so they weren't not

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01:01:56,720 --> 01:01:59,000
Speaker 1: like working it out so we could see Robin Um.

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01:01:59,080 --> 01:02:00,560
Speaker 1: There was one time where he tried to have her

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01:02:00,560 --> 01:02:03,400
Speaker 1: flown to North Carolina and she was sort of scared

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01:02:03,440 --> 01:02:06,040
Speaker 1: to fly, so he sent his good friend Jackie to

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01:02:06,120 --> 01:02:08,160
Speaker 1: go collect her and meet her at the airport, and

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01:02:08,240 --> 01:02:10,280
Speaker 1: at the last second she kind of backed out, yeah,

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01:02:10,360 --> 01:02:12,480
Speaker 1: because she was like, I'm going to hang out with

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01:02:12,640 --> 01:02:15,000
Speaker 1: my dad who have met twice, and my mom's not

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01:02:15,120 --> 01:02:17,360
Speaker 1: allowed to come, and I'm nine years old. I'm a

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01:02:17,400 --> 01:02:20,200
Speaker 1: little freaked out. So that trip didn't work out. They

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01:02:20,240 --> 01:02:22,120
Speaker 1: did keep in touch, mostly over the phone, but like

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01:02:22,200 --> 01:02:25,080
Speaker 1: whenever he came through town for wrestling, like she would

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01:02:25,120 --> 01:02:28,400
Speaker 1: come and hang out with the backstage and Jackie McAuley Um,

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01:02:28,520 --> 01:02:31,760
Speaker 1: one of his two closest friends, later said that no

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01:02:31,840 --> 01:02:34,680
Speaker 1: matter what it looked like from the outside, Andre really

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01:02:34,840 --> 01:02:38,280
Speaker 1: really loved his daughter. And when he died, he left

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01:02:38,560 --> 01:02:42,400
Speaker 1: a sum to Jackie, a sum to his other best friend, Frenchie,

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01:02:42,720 --> 01:02:45,200
Speaker 1: and then the rest was left to Robin Yeah, including

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01:02:45,280 --> 01:02:48,720
Speaker 1: the rights to his likeness and image, which I think

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01:02:48,760 --> 01:02:50,680
Speaker 1: we all know is where the real money sat, right

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01:02:51,000 --> 01:02:54,560
Speaker 1: that's the sweetest plow. So I think she was trying

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01:02:54,600 --> 01:02:56,520
Speaker 1: to do a documentary or something about him for a while,

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01:02:56,800 --> 01:02:58,840
Speaker 1: with the very least interviewing like old friends of his,

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01:02:58,920 --> 01:03:01,120
Speaker 1: so she could learn more about him. Right, very sweet.

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01:03:02,080 --> 01:03:03,440
Speaker 1: So he had a quote towards the end of his

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01:03:03,560 --> 01:03:05,680
Speaker 1: life I'm sorry at the height of his career, where

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01:03:05,720 --> 01:03:08,240
Speaker 1: he said I've had good fortune and I'm grateful for

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01:03:08,320 --> 01:03:10,560
Speaker 1: my life. If I were to die tomorrow, I know

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01:03:10,600 --> 01:03:14,240
Speaker 1: I've eaten more good food, drunk more beer and fine wine,

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01:03:14,280 --> 01:03:16,360
Speaker 1: and had more friends and seeing more of the world

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01:03:16,360 --> 01:03:18,760
Speaker 1: than most men ever will. I've had everything in life

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01:03:18,800 --> 01:03:20,920
Speaker 1: but a family, and I hope to have that one day.

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01:03:21,040 --> 01:03:23,280
Speaker 1: For now, I know a family wouldn't work because of

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01:03:23,320 --> 01:03:26,480
Speaker 1: my traveling, but one day, who knows, I might myself

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01:03:26,680 --> 01:03:30,960
Speaker 1: have a giant for grandson, and that is under the giant. Everybody,

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Speaker 1: all right, kind, thank you, everybody, thank you, thank you.

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01:03:54,000 --> 01:03:56,560
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