E457 Ric Flair

51:19Tax savings, yeah. But once I found it, when I was there, when I got to Charlotte, it was me and Richard Petty. The highest building was 10 stories, Brown Bay. I mean, I've seen that town grow. And why would I leave that to come anywhere, right? Yeah, especially if it's your home. If it's a city, you feel like that's your home. Well, I moved there when I was 23, and I grew with the city. Yeah. Did all your wives, you met them all in Charlotte? yeah wow no my first wife i met minneapolis she's from minneapolis oh yeah she lives in charlotte now because about my grandchildren yeah never had a cross word just great story so we used to stay at the raleigh hilton and there was a bar called the hilton underground right so this guy walked up to me and says god damn i was talking about 10 girls it was packed because i used to always say on tv was i used to go whatever hotel we were going to be in i would say 18 to 28 no boyfriends no husbands yeah come and see the nature boy i just would tell him where we were what'd your wife think of that well same thing you thought about me not wearing my wedding rings why are you wearing a guy that's not my gimme honey please why why are you telling me where we were staying.

52:39I said, they give us a deal in the hotel room. What do you think? I mean, do you actually think anybody shows up? Boring. Of course, the place is packed. Meanwhile, yeah. This guy goes to me, can the guy get laid here? Can the guy get laid, but you can get, I'll get you laid on here in the staircase. Let me buy you a drink. He was my wife's private eye. I introduced him to all the guys. hey this guy the cool guy i don't know if i got him laid or not

53:19and listen i went so good i used to get the midget wrestling laid that's hard really cowboy lang give me ladies give me ladies give me ladies i say you little sumbitch it's hard to get too late i don't need a few women yeah what kind of women would you usually go for That little fella, huh? I can call one right now. I can call one. She runs the Speedway Club in Charlotte now. Oh, Lord. Give me lead. The officer called me and said, the midgets are in town. I said, who are laying? They're laying in old Tokyo. They want to ride with you. I was like, be my El Dorado. So we're on the road. Give me lead.

54:01Give me lead. Give me lead. Give me lead. Give me lead.

54:07man you're so do you like hooking your buddies up yeah yeah it was hard getting that tokyo was impossible to get laid but really yeah so in tokyo it was hard to get him it was hard to get a little person laid yeah but i hang uh cowboy lang had a pretty good hang on him so i could sell that to that one oh my god boy i'd hate i mean it'd be so hard i mean that would be just to just to you know that's like a damn kettlebell something like that i mean if you even have half a pound of a wiener on a on a little person that's fucking yeah it looks a lot bigger than a little guy

54:50and especially if you put the right makeup on the sides of it dude because i'll put makeup on mine i'll make it look you know you want the light to hit it the right way it's everything

55:07when was the first time you got laid do you remember it uh 15. wow yeah it was um 14 i mean 14 or 15. i was i had just got my wsi and i was a what is a wsi water safety instructor probably for a lifeguard at a uh i've got i got my lifeguard and thing i must turn yeah i think i just turned 15 so um i got my wsi so i could be a lifeguard at the my parents lived in the colony apartments while they're waiting for a new home to be built for two years so i just summertime job i lean in the pool lifeguard go swimming instructions and talk to the mothers. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, boy. The lonely mothers with their husbands on the road.

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1:00:55but then the worst part is i never say i can't i never in that first you never tell a woman the truth no jesus then you start telling the truth then you gotta be honest with yourself and that's hard to do with women oh shit they can put the hottest light on me and ask me a thousand times and and i and i am guilty of doing it but they still won't admit it wow i told the judge five I was like, judge, I did not do that. We have you on film. That's not me. It looked just like you. That's not me. The judge said, I'm going to hold you in contempt. I said, well, I'm not going to admit it's me. What do you call it?

1:01:34Plead the fifth?

1:01:39I'm going to remember that. When you start telling them the truth, boy, you're in trouble. Holy cow. Women like that game. They want to be as clever as we are, but they're not. So women like the game, huh? You got to remember that. Oh, sure they do. Are you kidding? That's a lot of the math. I'm going to tell you something right now. Women love cowboys. Ladies love outlaws, like little babies love stray dogs. You know that? Yeah. Yeah. For every good woman, there's two outlaws. For every outlaw, there's 20 women. Yeah.

1:02:28even if it's your blanks they make the noise

1:02:38oh man dude yeah that's crazy god yeah dude there's been some times on the road it's like yeah there's sometimes like there i think there could be a woman that could come up to me right now and be like do you remember this and i'm like i have no idea about that yeah first of all they they don't look the same i just i have no idea what you're talking about it was me in 1982 i said who you know why i mean hello someone moved her out of line she's blocking traffic here she's claiming she knows it's impossible what we i think i've got it old have you had some ladies that came back that oh hell yeah my god that happens at least once a month different cities around the country remember me no and how are they how old are they oh well i'm 74 some of them are oh my god and i'm probably It's like my friend and I just said, Beak, and he says, Everybody your age is dead.

1:03:45And some of these chicks might as well be dead. There's no way that you and I, Nah, why not? The Mariana West show is not a chance. Mistaken identity. You got the wrong guy. My name is Fred Phillips, not Ric Flair. Did you watch my biography? Yeah, yeah.

1:04:07man jim dandy

1:04:11was it you worked i know you worked on the road who do you who was fun to travel with on the road like when you guys were just in the car cruising who was oh me aren't only and berry is the best yeah yeah jj yeah and that was during four horsemen days or the best wow man we how much fun must that have been you guys and we'd all ride in the same car yeah yeah what kind of car would you get um we're all driving cadillacs and i bought then all of a sudden the mercedes thing hit and i bought but i started buying mercedes i never changed i bought a road with voice one time but it just it wasn't even worth it yeah because the door was a big deal and you can't park it near anything because you're afraid it's going to get dinged up yeah that's what i never liked i rode with a friend one time who was rich and and i'm like dude we got to park seven miles away because you don't want to get the doors ding yeah um yeah you guys would hit the road huh oh yeah later on we traveled via private jet our company bought a falcon 10 which was great but in our younger days we traveled uh oh yeah but we we we like to travel during the day you're never gonna why go why drive it when i was young we drove at night but as we started to realize that we were at a level of popularity why not spend the night going out and enjoy the local you know whatever food flavor establishment ladies flavor yeah yeah and then travel the next day but then when we got the jet that's one shit we we parked a jet in like Vegas work Seattle back to Vegas all all night yeah Portland back to Vegas all night LA back to Vegas out all night san diego back to vegas all night it's called the great american passion on tour albuquerque back to vegas right yeah vegas and that vegas back to that and then frisco in la and then we hit canada city anyway home man i mean i was running a weeder product you know a lot of guys were loading up which which is not uncommon i just doing coke yeah the only reason i didn't my dad was a doctor and he just said don't do it on day one man he said you're you're gonna this guy can see this happening in your business i don't know anything about it but you know it happens not not just to you guys but because of your wear and tear and travel oh it's almost a necessity yeah but i avoided that but oh man i'll tell you i've i've had 17 nervous breakdowns no shit i was just so exhausted and one night i i had wrestled for an hour in Orlando or in the old Eddie Graham Sports Arena, which is a tin building, 104 degrees, and I wrestled Butch Reed.

1:06:54My heart was racing like hell, so I called my dad on a pay phone, and he was in Minneapolis. I said, Dad, my heart's racing. He said, what was the last time you went to bed? I said, I don't know. I thought to myself, I didn't want to answer. I said, well, I went to bed last night. I said, what time? He said, I never went to bed, right? and then so i had to go to i had to go to um tokyo the next day and i got in a plane going god i can't do this so i drank all the way to an arena drank 14 hours i maybe slept two hours but i woke up kept drinking right this isn't like 83 or 84. land in an arena back then we had the paper ticket and i said i just can't do this and i could hear bob his wife flair's son you know that i'll eat i walked over to the guy i said when's the next flight back in the united states i went i need to get to charlotte he said we got one for seattle leave in 20 minutes i said that went back they didn't have that deal with the bags took the paper ticket we'll be back I flew from Narita to Seattle, Seattle to Chicago, Chicago to Charlotte.

1:08:06And to make a long story short, I sat down next to this guy. I sat down where? Sat down next to this guy on the plane, going back to Narita to Seattle. And I go, do you mind if I talk to you? He said, no, why? I said, I'm having a nervous breakdown. I need someone to talk to him. And he said, really? i said yep i'm having another straight count and um so i talked all the way to sale drank all the way to seattle and then i slept to chicago and i walked and got in the plane i landed in charlotte and the firm order was there jimmy crockett he said you got to go back you're advertised and we got back on the plane never even left the airport went all the way back to tokyo drinking again.

1:08:56I mean, I was having a full-fledged North breakdown. He got there and went to the arena, wrestled an hour, and I broke the sweat and just started over again. But the guy from Seattle, we changed addresses, right? He sent me a Christmas card for 10 years. He said, I didn't know how famous you were. Really enjoyed talking to you. Man, you're an interesting guy. isn't that crazy yeah i didn't know famous or when i made really enjoy talking i hope you're feeling better

1:09:33oh full-fledged breakdown man god what did it feel like when you're having a nervous breakdown like what like what do you kind of go through i had one a few years ago oh you just you lose control i mean you just like you you're looking for someone to talk to it's strange it's hard to walk up to someone and say hey i think i'm having a nervous breakdown most people want to run away and go, call the cops. He's a wacko. Yeah, call God. No, I waited until the plane took off before it sent it to him. I don't want him calling 911. You're like, hey, remind me when we take off. I got something to tell you.

1:10:07And nowadays, can you imagine walking up to a plane? Will you talk to me? I'm going to break down a whole gate. They'll call you racist and tase you. Can we land the plane, please? They'll put you in the suit and take you off the plane. oh i've had about five of them no kidding yeah it's heavy huh you know agoraphobia is where you have to be close to something oh yeah yeah no tomo gore of phobia yeah you can't be alone you can't walk outside of your house oh you had that you think i know i had it wow yeah i had it for about six months i couldn't i couldn't get myself to leave and drive that airport i mean it's horrible what do you think brought it on and when you feel back in it like what it because i was just living a crazy lifestyle do you think you felt bad about anything or do you think you just it was just so much like drinking and party and oh just so much drinking and party i just i didn't sleep yeah and the one thing i did do which is kind of legendary in our business is regardless of what i did to myself i worked out every day and sometimes i just pushed myself too hard and that would cause that and then and having different promoters try to you know you know like when i cut my hair i really lost my mind when i cut my hair jim heard spartacus put a earring on i'm rick flair you know there's something you know when i cut my hair and i walked through the charlotte airport nobody knew who i was i wanted to absolutely walk in the bathroom and kill myself hey you see i mean normally walk down there hey rick yeah combing my hair and all that now i got the surfer joe eric give me a break oh you know i mean native americans it was a big thing to them to have their hair they took each other's hair if they captured one another they would scalp one another i started a trend with it yeah and then they have some from order i mean i still can't believe i gave in to them yeah man it's funny because i've cut my hair before and it fucking hurt me oh i can't remember the girl name mary riley she's are you sure you want to do this i said no i don't want to do it but i almost have to keep my job but man i was i was in shock that that alone was it was a nervous breakdown how hard was it to be like i could imagine like i don't have any children yet i would like to have some one day you know and that's the greatest reward in the world was it really the greatest reward in the world yes were you surprised that it was so rewarding did you think did you my problem is is i it was the greatest thing in the world but i didn't have time to spend with my older ones yeah my younger ones i had more time to spend with but my younger ones i don't i they lived in minneapolis number one um and the nwa did not was not i was awa so the nwa didn't even go to minneapolis oh so i only got to see them during the summer and when they came for summer i'm traveling right so i just had them travel with me was some of that fun sometimes yeah when we came to florida for a week yeah or we went to portland for a week or i went to dallas for a week you know but it's a lot to do here with the kids you know bush gardens yeah i've been to disney world and and um universal at least 50 times each one yeah With both four sets of kids.

1:13:37With my four kids. Is it hard, like, because you're a hero to so, like, you're an icon to people. You're a hero. You're this, you know, this thing that's larger than life. Especially in the time when you were, like, when you were wrestling in your prime. And that was just the prime for, like, if somebody was a star then, there was no way to, the only, they were, if television and their job labeled them a star they were a star there was no and there were there weren't that many stars yeah right there were some but there weren't a ton yeah but was it like i wonder if if it would be hard as a child right if i'm looking at my father if i would always feel like man how do i love my dad as much as these other people love him does that make any sense Yeah.

1:14:29You know, I think my older kids actually, because they didn't understand what I was doing, I think they were very resentful for a while. But, you know, it's just, where is he? And that's all they want. All they want is your time, and the time is what you don't have. Yeah. In my line of work, because we travel. I mean, even the kids today are still traveling four days a week. oh what's fascinating a lot of people know about wrestlers is that they there's all the times they aren't on television they're still wrestling oh yeah different fights they're still wrestling different matches they're leaving they're leaving for a two-week tour of uh england and italy yeah leaving uh when next week yeah i just wonder if that built up like what it would be like to you didn't have a choice so you couldn't wrestle less really right um no no kidding i had a chance to make a movie with the ryan pictures they wanted me to do a james bond thing so i think what i hear was like that's best the guy was a big fan of mine he came to the forum we're wrestling out there but they offered me 250 grand wow and i went back and then crocky said yeah you have to drop the world championship and go for six months but i don't where you'll be when you get back and i couldn't they had me buffaloed i should have gone and made the movie you think i'm back and i would have got right sure i would have given but you don't you know it's company you don't know and you i think life forced you to make decisions based on what you know not what you think you yeah and be this i mean a lot of guys tried forever to make in hollywood and three have made it yeah batista made it john made it and of course duane but i can tell you i mean roddy piper spent his whole life but just outside of that they live there were just b movies yeah he never got that crack and it's not good to have a talent he just it's bad for it political too it's so political yeah and now it's a lot of people's you know there's also even nepotism in that business there wasn't there was nepotism in you guys's business kind of isn't there or like i guess there's a tradition of name in you guys's business you know because you have like dusty roads dustin roads you had the von erichs you had um there's a lot of people whose children will also the flares yeah your daughter is a wrestler yeah both your children but your sons wrestled huh well your youngest son wrestled your oldest son didn't wrestle my oldest son did wrestle but he did he gave up on it yeah yeah my youngest son's one that passed away yeah yeah he would have been great yeah but my daughter i have no problem saying this is the best wrestler period female or male in the business today yeah she's badass yeah was there ever a thought uh uh did you guys ever get pitched to do a match against each other no no no yeah what was it like when they had the ladies of wrestling back then because remember that horrible they put those dames in there sometimes you know and everybody looked like they were like angry jazzercizers yeah yeah no that didn't float it was it was a nice theory and concept but did y 'all travel with those ladies no no you never saw them i saw lady wrestlers in the old days but a totally different thing and they and they were badly managed and mistreated as the midges were I mean, the midgets got paid nothing.

1:18:03Really? It was terrible. Yeah. That's why anything I could do to help them transportation-wise and that, or buy them drinks and food or that. Or get them laid, get them a little. Yeah, yeah. That front wing. Give me a leg, give me a leg. Give me a leg, give me a leg. Give me a leg, give me a leg. Shut up, Lang. And would he wear a cowboy hat? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Google him. I got to pull up Cowboy Lang. Cowboy Lang. He's famous. and was he the tallest I think he's only 4 '10 right ooh that's tall enough to fuck huh there he is right there ooh gee would you like him look at Cowboy Lane yeah he's a little pretty small

1:18:49dang he got nice hair on him huh yeah the Cowboy Hall was he 4 '10 4 '11 4 foot yeah Yeah. You got to really. Oh, if you show up to fuck at four foot, you got to really mean it. Yeah. Especially with a five foot nine jerk. Oh, wow. How do you even. I mean, I don't even. God, I would have watched that match. It's like scale of the mountain. I would have watched that match, dude. Or at least like hanging up your. Putting the star on the Christmas tree. Yeah. I have a friend that was with a one leg admission in Dubois. And I have a one day. I said, how was that? because it was brutal. Yeah, they didn't have a lot.

1:19:34I'm not mentioning names. We had a little person in our town and people would always try and get him to tell him. People always thought he knew secrets and magic and shit. People would always do some fucking magic and say shit like that. Tell me about this. Say you're on a plane, right? The plane's full of cocaine, right? It's going down. you don't do cocaine but there's you gotta there's you there's one and it's all wrestlers who's the guy that's got to get in there and fucking the only way to save the plane is somebody's got to do all the cocaine who's the guy that could really fucking party i used to do a lot of cocaine oh that i used to call him john wesley hardin you know what john wesley hardin is supposedly the fastest gunslinger of all time i've never seen anybody in my life and and this is a compliment yeah to him as a person and a man i've never seen anybody that could run and i'll take keith richard all day long could run with roddy piper wow the hot rod brother he used to wear that shirt that said that he had the best shirt of all time how much rod can you take i said that's my gimmick i want that damn shirt out right how much rod can you take god oh boy I would want that yeah I'd love dude my god I would love I mean I would turn an eight ball into a two ball in four minutes you have no idea really do it huh the hot rod I wrote in my book he said I said can I I told this to the Dominican Republic wrestling Jack Bonanno we had a riot after the billions of matches.

1:21:18A riot? Oh, yeah, Jack Veneno, because over there, the wrestling, listen, I'm the first white guy to go to the islands, man. It was rough. No shit. What didn't they like? Well, we did a finish where he had to sleep. That was his finish hole, right? He's a little guy, right? And the referee went, one, dropped my arm, right? Two, right? And the bell rang, right? And they thought that he won. and the guy went to hand the belt to me. I'm laying there like bloody and all that. And they thought, what the fuck? And they hit the ring. Fought ourselves all the way back. Got back there. God, they took me to the office.

1:21:58They gave me five grand and gave Roddy Piper a spittoon full of cocaine. And they took us over to a whorehouse and dropped us off. And dropped you off? Roddy looked like Chevy Chase and Trading Place is a line around his mouth. Remember that Trading Place, that movie with Chevy Chase? I like it. His car face has got nothing on the hot rod. Wow, man. He ended up doing stand-up comedy at the end of his career. Yeah. He's just the most entertaining guy. To me, he's funnier than when I inducted him to the Hall of Fame. and said uh who's the guy that was married jenna mccarthy for a while oh uh jim carrey yeah jim carrey he's funnier jim carrey wow yeah he was incredibly funny witty yeah what was a gimmick a lot of gimmicks you know i mean one thing about wrestling is staying creative staying unique especially like um as entered as the wrestlers themselves but also as the producers the people putting it on what was some gimmicks or a gimmick that fucking flopped you were like this is fucking unreal oh god too many too many too many too numerous too many to pick on just one yeah it's here's the deal they would they have probably have 100 kids i'm not accurate on discount but between 80 and 100 kids in orlando right now at nxt right um if i'm looking at what i've seen in the last 10 years which my daughter's involved in that equation.

1:23:36In the last 10 years, my daughter, Sasha, Bailey, Becky, Roman, Seth, Dean, they're all main eventers and still are. Yeah. That's hard. And once you get on top, it's harder to stay on top. You don't realize, Miz has been around, Miz has been there 20 years. Yeah. Believe it or not. Randy Orton's been there 22 years He's just 40 years old You know what I mean? And Randy's still on top Randy started on top And ended on top Cena had 20 years on top It's hard But the percentage of people that come out of there I would say is 1 % It's that hard I went to a big recruiting thing this summer In LA at Wrestlemania And they had 100 kids I think And they took 10 and they and they recruit legit college athletes from all over the country yeah to attend flew them in put them through the drills you know physical drills um not the kind like we used to but still to see what they're made of but most division one athletes are you know i've got the fortitude in that and out of that 10 one might make it it's that hard it's that hard yeah was there as many people trying when you were coming up no it was what the young they did everything in the world to keep young guys away from it oh yeah wow so why why was that why because they didn't want the competition so who are young you guys like the best example of all time ricky steamboat it was you know not not only a great wrestler a great person but when steamboat came to charlotte way they hated him he handsome young great body because that was back then the bodies were just starting to become a big part of the of the business especially in vince's business and you know you weren't everybody wasn't lifting weights and nobody was as handsome and he was more about personalities in a way yeah i had i had to really fight for him to get him to even get him going because they said ah he'll never make it well look how big he got so yes i guess it was and he's a real nice kid too which is not the kind of guy that's gonna be a prick you know right it's easy to be a prick and then say that's your way out i mean the i don't want to do this i don't want to do this anyway fuck you guys like i can name 100 guys like that yeah i don't want to do this anyway or you held me back that's the greatest line how do you hold someone back if you're not the promoter how do you hold someone back yeah you call a promoter and say this guy's an asshole yeah well a good promoter's gonna go fuck you if a guy's got talent if he can draw money like vince look at all the shit with bischoff he's still found a way to use him right right and it worked but how do you leave the company in a garbage truck he always gets you there put him in a garbage truck and drove off his last day at the company really yeah wow yeah but he utilizes to make money yeah vince couldn't forgive anything if there's a dollar attached to it he's a businessman businessman be a business first wow hey hey tomorrow you're gonna be with hulk right so i asked hulk so bishop hulk kevin nash and scott hall would go out on tv and this is hulk and i used to think to myself what you know hulk knows this i used to go man this just ain't cool bishop would got so mad at me because i wouldn't do it and they'd be on tv and they'd say we're going to close you down vince we're sitting here telling you because they beat him for 83 weeks right oh beat him in the ratings yeah for 83 weeks right and then along came stone cold steve austin and then one day he went like this to vince and guess what 83 weeks are over wow and within two years the company was bankrupt yeah but he's forgiven hulk and he forgave kevin scott off mcmahon did sure yeah he brought them all back yeah and use all that to make money yeah i mean hulk hogan and he to me hulk hogan is the biggest star he and austin are the two biggest stars in the history of the business i'll tell you a great story i'm the nwa world champion i'm traveling around the world doing everything hulk is in wwf right i go home to minneapolis my dad goes how's it going right now how's it going want i said it's good he said all my friends are hulk hogan they don't know who you are oh dad i'm the fucking world champion of what of what

1:28:33hate you fucking hogan i'll say this your championship belt i don't know if we win it what hey tell hogan tell hogan i'm gonna tell the story about the hooter girls in jacksonville when i hit my watch and i couldn't find it one of made your watch no i hid it oh you did i've had four stolen oh yeah oh funny all girls wake up in the middle of the night just walk off my rolex it's time to go yeah or my main coat yeah some lady some chick told me she was a professor at rothwestern university i took her back to the hotel in chicago and my friend came in at four o 'clock in the morning and she was going around a revolving door with my Rolex on and wearing my main coat.

1:29:24My friend grabbed her and said, I don't think so. He walked back to my room, kicked me into the bed. He said, the chick was stealing your shit. I thought she was a teacher to go to Northwestern. I guess not. They've all got a story. I woke up with two in Baltimore and that guy looked for all my shit right up to girl married right so i got like god i said okay motherfuckers where's my shit what are you talking about you threw your old you threw your horlicks in a bowl of spaghetti and told us you had 11 i said we're gonna throw my walls well we don't see that i'm previously in the ring and they get round two get the fuck out of here do you think people dreaded seeing were you always like too much of a party for the scene you think no no people love me people love yeah i could find something i do in loving texas on a sunday night brother that's a lot that's hard to do yeah somewhere somewhere there's a victim so i just need to start the conversation and what was the name who does

1:30:42who else could drink like that with you who could really oh god name it that's endless double a mike heggstrand piper a drinky guy there's a lot of guys could really drink yeah did you ever try to stop drinking well i guess after your sir after your after that well i didn't drink for a year you didn't drink for a year and at one time i was taking steroids and i took an overdose of one and my heart went like this and the guy said uh you've been drinking too much he thought i had cardiomyopathy so i quit i did an old doulas full year that's not hard for me to quit drinking it was hard they put me in rehab i had no problem quit drinking what did you how long were you in rehab for 35 days and you where'd you go to place here in tampa oh that's nice yeah florida is fuller every every other building in florida is a rehab oh yeah this is a dump it was it was a an old like a what do you mean like a day's in no not a day's in but La Quinta oh yeah La Quinta over here on Fowler right yeah so my roommate my roommate's a doctor from Fort Lauderdale that's there for digesting

1:31:53crystal meth anally oh yeah that's one roommate now what's that got to do with me drinking the other one the other one the other guy is a 23-year-old that was taking 40 milligrams of Valium at 23. You don't think he was vibrating? The other guy, I'm trying to think. The other guy, I don't know what the hell he did, but I mean, it was so far-fetched. And here's the deal. I get there, I go through all the physical and all that, get all the shit done, right? The doctor checks me out. I wake up in the morning, and when I was a kid, I used to smoke, so i i just loaded up with cigarettes dip i've always dipped my whole life i've quit twice and i don't dip anymore but i you will again though yeah i might um but it's just nasty it's different oh yeah i don't like it but you'll do it yeah but um i look across the courtyard i'm smoking a marble right and i'm drinking a cup of coffee and i said i said to the guy my roommate i can't remember his name so this is not the guy that guy looks just like a doctor he said it's a doctor I said, what's he doing here?

1:32:58He said, he's been a patient here for five years. I said, the doctor is taking care of us as a fucking patient? What? I couldn't believe it. So I walked up to the counselor. I said, is that fucking guy, does he have a license? No, they pulled it. Well, how is he practicing medicine? It is a nut house. I was in the fucking night house. I mean, I cried. I went, this is the nut house. I'm full of nuts. When the doctor's taking care of you, Give me a shot, prescribing medication. And he's there for, he's a five-year vet. And he's a patient. And he's a patient. And he's taking care of me. Oh, my God.

1:33:40Who wrote that script? I don't know. That's what I said to him. Holy shit. Wow. Oh, my God. Damn, Rick. You're not allowed to talk to the girls, Rick. Okay. I didn't want you to take the test again. What does this look like? a bear or a skunk or an owl it looks like you dumb fuck why are you asking me the same question been looking at this box for three weeks three weeks and i'm not gonna change i don't know what it looks like what does it look like to you and why are you in here yeah you think i'm lying no shit and did y 'all do any athletics in there did y 'all do like volleyball you know one guy told me i missed the morning walk and we went to the big meeting i threatened to kill him i said next time you stooge on me a motherfucker i'll find you before we get here because the way i was thinking anybody want to talk the circle oh the circle before you go to bed god circle jerk god man no no shit it was brutal so you never so you never got that coin is it we're so proud to give you the coin to do i walked across the street i'm like walked into a bar put on the counter i said i'm you can have this to confirm it say rick flair was here and give me six miller lights and two jack and coke and two uh kettle one and cranberry and lime i drank them all right there then uh then i had a little pick me up and take me over to the beach yeah yeah oh you got to go for a swim after that oh jesus i wasn't kidding what was was there ever any like wild you're not supposed to drink okay oh wow that they faked me out with that for a while the company will never have you back break if you don't go back to rehab that you said you'd go back i'm not going back yeah well company number of years again i said okay fine two weeks later you come over to tv yeah of course i thought i wasn't allowed to come anymore you are do you think there was anything was there a point where you really damaged your ability to go back do you think that you damaged it not that they chose it no with them no i always got along with them yeah no that's that that's one of the reasons i'm successful i always have always said yes it's a difference between me and hulk and he'll tell you i said yes hulk said no yeah because i wanted to get along i didn't give a fuck right if they gave me something to do i just made it better i'll do whatever they put me in that house act like i'm not okay i am a nut did alcohol your son your your son uh had addiction issues i i've been recovery right so i've had addiction issues over the years it's in my family yeah with heroines i it's sad it's not an addiction it's a disease yeah it's unbelievable i've never it's i i was in such denial unbelievable wait and as a parent is it hard to notice when that's going on because i've never been a parent like is it hard to notice like yeah well i know i think i noticed a little bit when high school with the weed nap but here's the thing he was on life support four times okay just be prior to dying and one time one time when he came off the ventilator his left leg was like gone.

1:37:06I mean, we had to send him to Sierra Tucson. And from there to he went to Colorado to climb to this facility that exercised to get his leg back and all that. Oh, his leg shut down. That's like Eddie Money. Not shut down totally, but he was ripping. Yeah, Eddie Money used to huff so much gas that his leg shut down. Yeah, well, then the next time, The worst was his oxygen level went down to 42 for 24 hours. That's supposed to be in like 95 plus, 97 actually, 98. That thing I put on your finger, right? The doctor calls me in and says, if he wakes up, he's gonna be brain dead. So I was just, I'm preparing you.

1:37:53I swear to God, as I'm sitting here in front of you, he woke up, the whole family was there. we thought it was you know we all came everybody came from around the country it's a good because we thought he was gonna die right there he woke up he was completely normal wow nothing wrong did it shock you guys the doctor looked at me it shocked him he sat down he said i've never seen anything like this in my life i'm happy for you and i'm sorry that i gave you that diagnosis no I'm glad you did because then we went and sat down and figured out how to attack it again. Well, this is after the leg thing, man.

1:38:34He was a fighter, huh? Yeah. You kidding. But I mean, to this day, when you go to the doctor and he, if you, if your oxygen is at 42, you're, you're not supposed to be functioning. Yeah. You can't even whistle, dude. Yeah. And he woke up. He was completely fine. He's a tough kid. huh and i went i went my god this has got to be you know like this will be the wake-up call yeah and so i took him to tokyo and i was like i got on a plane to go back i looked up and said let me tell you they put paul mccartney in jail here for smoking a joint they will bury you and you get this very strict in tokyo you don't around like you do here with with drugs you're in drugs in tokyo or singapore something like that yeah in a world of man came back home to go to wrestlemania to see his daughter see my daughter and let him on my site went to buy tennis shoes came back went through went through delfrisco's to watch ncaa he wasn't drinking or anything bottle pills fell out of his pocket so wendy picks up the pills took it away didn't even tell him i had it right so he wants to go back to the hotel go go ahead so wendy went with him so when he calls me and says i'm not gonna read the door to get um um like aspirin or not town or something like that right and um he didn't answer the door so i went right back right this is what this is like all in 45 minute time right right yeah you're at del frisco's you hear that you head back i open the door he's like this just sit in a chair no sit on the floor okay so i didn't see any needles so i thought oh god he just i've seen him like this a thousand times so I said do I call the police the same thing at the same thing I said no I just I'm gonna put him in bed that would I because we were so lucky he didn't make the news because the cops kept it loaded on a DL for me they put them in rooms and under a different name and right they were helpful yeah they were understanding yes great guys they pulled him out of his car one time and called me i mean so i had a really great rapport with them so i just said i'll just let them i said but this time i said i'm gonna let them bottom out i mean that's they keep that that word bottom out you know yeah i just couldn't imagine him dying in an alley somewhere because i let him bottom out right i mean how would i ever get over that really hard so i wake up in morning and go out coffee with my oldest daughter come back and i just said i'm so mad at him right now i'm not going i opened the door just to check on him which i just i even walked out halfway i said i'm just going to check on him i can't just leave him walking he was purple called the cops same two same crew same exact people same paramedics boom and the guy said rick he did the same thing he yelled at we'll stand outside he came out three minutes and said he didn't make it oh i said what he said he didn't make it this time rick man well i've told this story a hundred times but i can't it still kills me i started drinking from 10 in the morning hell i got there at 9 30 because i knew the bartenders while they were setting up 9 30 in morning till 2 a.m for five years i just couldn't just i just couldn't believe it say if you don't go drink right then what why do you think you had to go like just i don't only way to get away from i didn't take drugs how do you get away from the feeling that you're responsible for not calling i should have called

1:42:51it's hard it's i'm sure it's really hard to be the parent of someone that has you know an addiction what did you learn about addiction like watching your son like did you was it anything that you were able to learn about like watching it from you know yeah don't be in denial i'm worse than fritz von eric fritz was in denial of the boys he would not believe that they were getting high that they were screwed up all the time he was in denial oh it's just you guys are just imagining it carry through the disc is 210 feet at houston i mean you know that big deep voice yeah the boys are fine they're just growing up and having a little fun smoking a little weed like they were a lot more than that but do you think addiction just runs in y 'all's family well i don't know your other children do they suffer from nothing nothing i don't know how he got it i mean it's heartbreaking to witness i've lost a lot of friends with from addiction and it is heartbreaking to watch you know so i can only imagine what it's like what was your son like like what kind of what kind of guy was he the greatest kid in the world fun handsome um i mean i don't talk about somebody he was a he was a lady killer man he i lived he lived with me for a while well after i got divorced the last time and he he would he would call me and say dad will you do me a favor and i said what's happened I said, will you talk to this girl's friend while I'm going?

1:44:30Will you run wingman for me? Yeah. He used to bring somebody to come get her out. I'll watch TV, but get the friend out of here. I can't even have a conversation with her. Jesus Christ. Did you have to really talk to some strange friends? I'll tell you something. If you can find humor in this, as I'm standing up there, let's say there were 1500 people at the funeral maybe 2000 a huge church in charlotte whatever it held and there were 20 girls in the first two rows i didn't know wow man i would take them down to south colina to columbia to go to the gamecock game uh-huh i said well i'm leaving tomorrow morning 10 o 'clock you come home with a different girl driving home the next day every day like father like son he was the master man yeah yeah and he's do you think he felt like it was tough to live i mean i just wonder what it's like if your dad is so such a you has had such a unique life you know do you i wonder if you do you feel competitive do you feel or it's just life that's just life i think i say it's just like because the other kids aren't affected like that at all yeah ashley's ashley ashley i can imagine maybe once in her life smoked a cigarette when she was 10 years old or 20 i mean nothing nothing and she's around it a lot i mean it's not as prevalent as it was which is a big difference thank god what drugs aren't prevalent now no there is probably not where the guys can just grab me they're more aware yeah for some reason thank god everybody's aware of the fact that the shit is dangerous yes and we didn't have time to think about back then yeah the guys and if it made you look bigger it kept you up longer but at least they have three days off we didn't have days off that's hulk the hulk was on i it wasn't just me hulk was out 72 days at a time wow it's a long time to be away from home oh i can't imagine yeah You come home, people look different.

1:46:44Yeah, the worst thing that ever happened was they invented cell phones so your goddamn wife would call you. Jesus. What's that song? Kid Rock and Cheryl Krohsingh. Living a life in a slow hell. Yeah. Different girl every night at the hotel. Yeah. Woo-woo. I used to call the front desk and say, if anybody calls to me, I ain't here. I am an alias unless I ask for Tony Atlas there's a comedian there's a comedian named Larry Reeb he used to have this joke one of my favorite jokes he said my wife said never answer the phone during sex I said what if it's you calling

1:47:34that's good shit I always love that one man did any strange woman ever show back up at your house Also, that had to freaking be scary. Oh, God, are you kidding me? You drove up in the driveway. I have no idea who you are. What do you mean? You promised me last night. I didn't promise you shit. Now my kids and my wife's in the front yard. Never admit you're wrong. What happened? Nothing. I found black hair on the carpet in here. I said, what are you talking about? I'm telling the dog over here. This is human hair. Who do you have here? Who'd you have here? Nobody. Somebody had a dog with 11-inch hair over here.

1:48:18You're like, I think it was a long-haired child. What are we going to do, you know? Oh, man. By the way, I'll have you. I'll call, though, please. You told me you loved me. What are you talking about? I didn't know your name. You lied. Maybe I did. What?

1:48:41what about the product man so this is new rick flair i like it man makes me feel good it does have we drank enough to get oh you did i'm almost done are you alert oh i can alert bro

1:49:00dude i'll have another can dude hell yeah it almost makes you feel erect a little wow oh what's the toughest thing about getting older rick by getting older yeah what's been like one of one thing that surprised you that you didn't think would be that certain way or something that's been kind of interesting you know it's interesting for me my my dad was 70 when i was born so it's all like even just getting to sit around a man who's 70 and or right and be in the present it's just you know it's almost like um i don't know it's just interesting for me you know i never got to spend a bunch of time talking with my dad and stuff so even to be able to have a conversation as an adult yeah the guy in his 70s kind of like resonates with me in like a special place i think um what's yeah what's been interesting about just being older like what's or what's been surprising about getting older what what do you think would not be one way or maybe would be different or um you know i don't know i don't think i even ever thought about anything like that until i got sick then you really appreciate you appreciate when you recover from something like that i mean the airplane crash was one thing getting there with lightning was something else but when you literally are life support and you almost die yeah and then you realize that for some reason you're lucky enough to be and i truly believe that he makes every decision he's gonna give you another shot i spend so much time preoccupied with trying to figure out how not to fuck up really yeah because i love to fuck up yeah i mean i love to have fun i don't mean i don't mean fuck up right i don't want to hurt anybody right but how do i how do i have fun and not get in trouble well well it's just because social media you can't do anything and I love to go out and I never drink at my house there's not one drop of alcohol in my house I'm a social drinker that's purely me and I just go out every night you know people don't understand when you spend 38 years on the road like Kevin Nash said to me one time if I don't spend two nights in a hotel every week I'm lost

1:51:18when I took that year off and Bischoff sued me. Yeah. And I went home. I hadn't been home. I hadn't been home and didn't even know my wife. Christ, my mother-in-law lived there now. We had two maids. I didn't even know it. What an advanced daytime drinking. Three o 'clock at the country club. Sometimes at one. Wow. What are you going to the country club? I'm not playing cards. I'm drinking. Yeah. And I'm talking to the bartender. She's nice looking. i'm playing poker with my liver that's what i'm playing it's pasta night send the kids up dude i remember my dad used to take us to the bar and they'd have like that bowl of fucking peanuts oh i know fucking man it was so much fun dude and that's when bars didn't even have tvs and i remember that that that i can't deal with no tv no bar no me these days you got to have the TV, you want the sports on?

1:52:14I live and die for sports. But you remember when they didn't have them, don't you? Yeah, you want to know something? Yeah. I never knew, this is the guy's, I'm so embarrassed. I didn't know what Prime, Netflix, Hulu, I didn't know what that was until I got sick. I didn't know how to Google myself. Yeah. I didn't know what Google was. all i did was drive travel wrestle and have fun i didn't know anything i'm still not computer literate she showed me the other day how to work emojis on my phone oh i mean i'm i'm and then and then when i'm laying in the chair home from the hospital i didn't after being in rehab for a month learn how to walk.

1:53:05I didn't know that I had a stoma. What did you think? One day I'm sitting there, I'm home in the house, and the girl comes and says, I'm here to change your bag. And I said, my bag. What do you mean, jerk you off? No, this. Oh, that's what, yeah. Yeah, and I go, and I said, I said, I didn't walk on rehab, because I couldn't walk or anything. Oh. and they're there and i had forgotten i didn't know i didn't know had this dome in rehab the whole time you're in rehab yeah i didn't know it for 31 days then i got home and the woman's there to change it wow yeah that's all but that then you were out of it then you appreciate life yeah was it hard to go back to drink well then were you shocked that you just after that 30 after the days in rehab that you went back to drinking is it scary like is it bad for you to drink if like is it did the doctors say don't drink

1:54:06i mean also the doctor was in the facility so oh they said don't drink of course they did okay but here's the deal yeah so being from a family medical family i went i didn't get one second opinion i got 30 okay every time i met a doctor didn't do anything about your your internal mm-hmm I'd had prior surgeries in 2015 and it's one in 1 million times that you can nick your intestine and it can burst again mm-hmm and I was not 1 million so now when I drink my kidney levels everything perfect and my my kidney levels are off a little bit the doctor tells me drink more water so now I drink probably drink I drink a small bottle of water nice you got a plan now got a plan what do you think God put you on earth for do you think about that sometimes it seems like you do hmm I don't know but I'm sure trying to mend my ways I'm a wild I'm harmless but I was harmless but wild I'm harmless I've been neutered twice with nurses that did not sign the waiver I wonder how many run around we thought we thought what wrestler had that real hammer on him no homo but what wrestler really had that freaking wand on him I don't remember somebody had to have that launcher um you've been around some of the biggest men in the world yeah i know i'm trying to think i mean what about haystack baby oh i want a new haystack no no he might have that needle on him yeah i got the name but i don't want to put on the air yeah no no sweat yeah yeah i got it no i don't even have to know because i he's married with kids like no look i'm just glad somebody's got a big one i tease his wife all the time oh yeah when you see one of those joust victims like his wife that's got to be unreal yeah but she wouldn't she wouldn't like me making a joke no i don't think i don't think we should i'm not trying to get it out of here this will be the page the front page out of the whole interview.

1:56:34Ric Flair says, damn, I remember. But there's something about you, you know, because most of your life you get to know your own wiener, right? And then every now and then somebody walks across with some real crazy wiener and you're like, my God, that guy's fucking running a different ball game. That guy's in a different line of work. He's different genetic. Yeah, that guy's fucking, that guy's in a different line of work. Boys, any other questions that you had? there's anything the last match i saw you last match in national yeah oh that's right dehydrated man it would have been so good yeah were you what do you mean you're dehydrated for it no i was fixated on weighing 218 pounds i was in better shape then than i was in 2008 i mean i was up there i woke where i won right now to john cena's trainer 500 free squats wow running a mile and i hate running this is two years ago a year ago july wow year ago july and uh i mean i got i had 10 weeks to get in shape for it and i was doing everything i mean and i had a partner and i drove i dropped that's wrong going out to rob john cena's guy up at land lakes i mean and we've but i was fixated on my got down to 218 um but i'm a cosmetic of a nightmare anyway so i was gonna wear a shirt but i i woke up in the morning of course i was drinking the night before at the palm with the hilton in nashville right i love that bar yeah it's nice and then i saw bobby you know one night so um bobby rock kid rock yeah yeah and then he came in to match oh yeah he walked in my dressing room and he went um i've been entertaining you for a long time they want you to i came to watch you entertain me tonight and then we all went to his place afterwards yeah We had a big night.

1:58:30It's fun in there, dude. They got to get a bathroom on each floor, though, man. That's a good point, huh? That's a good point, man. Jesus Christ. You can buy a fucking bathroom. That five-floor climb downstairs to one stall when they got 2 ,000 people, it's horrifying. Oh, God. It makes me want to get one of those stoma bags. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Well, no, don't worry about that. But anyway, so all I had was two cups of coffee and three egg bites. I didn't drink any water or anything. And I got out there, and I felt great and all that. And then I realized that anxiety, and I made the mistake of saying to one of the guys, I don't feel good.

1:59:11Because now they think I'm having a heart attack. Yeah. Or da-da-da-da. And I just said, I don't feel it. I got lightheaded. I actually fell asleep on the apron. I'm standing, right? Really? Oh, yeah. Yeah. During the match? And the guy had to go, Rick, Rick, Rick. And I woke up and then I got back in. And then I did something else. And I'm laying there. And at the end, Manny, my son-in-law, is going, you have to wake up, sir. I have to wake up, sir. He was handing me the brass knucks to hit Jarrett with, right? So he put the brass knucks on my hand. You have to wake up, sir. You have to wake up, sir.

1:59:57but you know i went on the floor i got i got whacked myself way too early and then because everybody was panicking and to end it right i had faked like i was having a heart attack i went ah just because i want i want everybody i said slow down motherfuckers we we can do this i mean i can make it just listen to me but you know what everybody first of all i appreciate they were scared to death i was gonna die okay but i wanted the match to be better because we'd rehearsed it to be a 20 minute unbelievable they're supposed to suplex me off the top rope and all kinds of shit but anyway it that's what makes me want to do it again because i got in such good shape and it's like i'm a really goal oriented like now my new goal is like i'll be 75 right so in february so i want to bench press 225 five times and i want to do the 500 free squats in 14 minutes again wow yeah that's a lot yeah it's it it's very doable but you have to do it no no that might be one of the best quotes i've ever heard it's very doable but yeah but you have to do it yeah i used to be able to do when i was really in the best shape of my life i used to take a deck of cards jokers being 20 face card uh faces ace king queen or 10 right so flip the card right 10 crunches 10 push-ups 10 free squats next one joker 20.

2:01:36wow i could do all that it's 457 of each in 38 minutes is my record that's hard because getting up and down for the free squats and the push-ups 440 57 push-ups is fucking hard that's a lot yeah jesus that's a lot yeah that's okay i couldn't do that for the last match but i when in my in your prime well trying to you know when you're traveling these shit towns right it don't have they don't even have a ymca oh yeah some of these small towns so i just sat in the hotel room and had to figure out a way to kill the day so there's other you know what's who's somebody you miss wrestling who do i miss wrestling yeah like who was the biggest thing i miss about wrestling is the camaraderie god when you just know who personally like is there a person you met you were like man we really it was just a real oh i miss iron the most probably he just lost a son too to addiction or no i'm not sure what it was but he it's a horrible thing yeah um i just had it up i traveled so many wonderful guys i traveled with sean and hunter i love i love hanging out with undertaker and i don't get to see him very often love steve austin i hardly get to see steve steve steve just um you know keeps himself in basically isolation yeah undertaker came out to a show of mine a week and a half ago two weeks ago in austin oh yeah it's really nice to meet him and michelle that's his wife yeah beautiful yeah she's beautiful they just adopted a beautiful little baby oh really yeah oh i didn't know that yeah yeah they're a great couple they were so kind yeah he's a great guy that was cool um who did was it did you ever get to meet madonna no but dennis rodman did dennis is my man is he How in the hell do you cheat on Madonna for Carmen Electra?

2:03:39I go, I mean, Dennis, I said, Dennis, Dennis, you realize that I would walk on fire to lay on top of that. And you caught her. I think Madonna is incredible. Oh, yeah. When she was younger, what's that song of hers? Like a virgin? Like a virgin. Jesus Christ. Dance, da-da. Yeah. With your heartbeat. I'll tell you this story, Rick. So I met my grandparents, right, dude? And they wouldn't let us watch wrestling or nothing, dude, because they were fucking, you know, they wanted the Lord to find us. And so I would go across. On the Lord's Day. That's what my mother-in-law would say to my wife, they're drinking again out by the pool.

2:04:27And on the Lord's Day. Kiss my ass, Mary Ann. The Lord's Day. Every day is the Lord's Day. Especially you freeloader living off me. That's the bottom line, baby. Freeloader. On the Lord's Day. Shoot it, mama. Shoot it, booze. Oh, God. That would make a guy drink. Yeah, that probably started it. jesus christ god we used to pack the beer cans up me and iron right to tell stories laugh all day long i went across the street i met my grandparents so i'll go across the street there's nothing to do they live in they're in a small town in illinois in wyoming illinois so i'll go across the street and there's a park there yeah and some girl i never known her or anything she had a tr like a transistor radio she plugged it in and tuned it to like a virgin right yeah she's that starts dancing on this picnic table for me and i'd never met her or anything i'm just like i'm like probably nine or ten i walked into the park and i was just wondering what like what what big stars came out to see you got like what like i was trying to think of some of the big stars then that were like some of the biggest in the world and who you would have crossed paths with that would have been surprising not that many i mean i'll tell you i like i adore chris everett right yeah so i'm flying to japan and i'm sitting this far from chris ever she's wearing a yellow polo shirt right gold rolex this is in the 80s smoking hot right god and i mean and uh not a word yeah yeah i'm not gonna go over and shoot myself and die right and she didn't give you a sauna Nothing.

2:06:20Zero. Zero. Double O's. But I flew back with Yvonne Lindell, and he wouldn't stop talking. Oh, God. Jesus Christ. Yvonne, get a drink. Calm down. Yes, wrestling's fake. Okay, now motherfucker. Can we move forward? I live like short of an instant, man. Good for you, buddy. Dude, I sat next to Eddie Money one time. Yeah. He told me he used to huff gas, right? And so one of his legs shut down and quit working. and then he started showing me semi-nude pictures of his newest wife okay it's pretty cool yeah i know i can't get i can't get my wife doing that yeah well no she is she is like uh-uh you gotta respect it you know what if i want to show you this rick so i have an alternate personality it's a wrestler right and it's called uh the rat king baby so i just want to show you one of my promos let me know what you think okay and this isn't you rick this is a different guy what are your thoughts on that you think you're better than the regular folk rick you think you're better than wrestling fans than the regular people who run you out your little loose meat dinners well i got news for you what kind of news he is saying anyone can get it will you be the one rat king all you need to know rick is that i'm ready because i'm gonna give you the truth baby and i'm gonna give you the trauma name the time and the place and the place and the time because i got a clock and a globe and an axe to grind from alaska to nebraska from maine to fort Wayne It's your call you turkey slicing Boner monkey What do you think there?

2:08:11Potential I'll take it man From a legend I'll take it Rick thanks so much for sharing your life with us man You've been It's obviously you've wanted to be an entertainer And you've been extremely entertaining Throughout my entire life Thank you very much You guys have a great trip Woo She's reminding me of my own gimmick. Now I'm just floating on the breeze And I feel I'm falling like these leaves I must be cornerstone Oh, but when I reach that ground I'll share this peace of mind I found I can feel it in my bones But it's gonna take... ABC Wednesday, Shifting Gears is back. He has arisen. Tim Allen and Kat Dennings return in television's number one new comedy.

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