Joe Rogan - Jake The Snake on Andre the Giant

awesome, I remember we did the Andre thing right, I mean I'm ready, I'm supposed to be afraid of the

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, oh yeah, and he faints and fakes a heart attack. The knees, you know, lying there, poor Bobby Heenan, I mean, oh, they're checking a hit. his chest, please, people act like he had a heart attack and someone gives him mouth to mouth. Bobby and Bobby say are you kidding me? Giant, that

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breath you had, man, since he drank, pretty eyes, brother, I love the

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to death, I mean. when I first entered the world of wrestling as a referee in 1974, then they came to me with this look: tomorrow night you will not be a referee, but we want you to explain to Andre why, so you were a referee before you were professional wrestler, right? the best way to start, could you feel it?, you feel it, you learn to feel people and you are going to judge people, you don't know how to read the people you meet and in the crowd you can read them, but I took care of taking care of the clothes, they gave me a truck, Andre said.

I'll sit in the back, kind of like a beanbag chair, and take it into the building. He will do this. He will take you back to the hotel. I'm fine. 70 miles no problem 80 miles whatever so we finish the show and he's like beer he's fine he talks he walks even you know so I stopped and I brought him beer to my damn cell there. Andre Nia's two geishas, ​​it's an 85 mile trip, man, um, yeah, suitcases, something. Just in case, I guess he wants some for his room, so we head back to the lab and start driving.

I don't know about you man, even when I drink until I get to the first third or fourth hour, I pee like every time I have a Barry pee, I don't really buy beer, I just rent it, you know, rent it and then get rid of it him, but after 30 miles, I make a mistake, sorry, I got angry. outside you don't know anything mirror here's a pop-pop he we get closer I have to pee again finally get there get out of this I'll bring your beer you'll finish what you drank 40 beers yes, yes, of course, yes, I love you big nonsense, you know it's leaving , I go in there, I get there, the first thing I do, I'm checking with my hand, make sure I'm up, I put my hand to pee because I thought this was never enough to pee, he drank two cases of beer and I didn't have to pee No I care if you drink me, but damn, how can you do that?

I mean I felt so inadequate that this guy drank 48 beers and didn't pee 48 beers in 80 miles yeah that was nothing more than his hammer covers that spring it's how big his hands were just an amazing athlete an amazing man and being in the ring with him it was um beep it was Hulk Hogan lifted him up in the air look at that picture of him with a regular a crazy sized beer can it doesn't look real it doesn't look real it's 12 ounces yeah yeah it's a 12 ounce beer and just disappears inside his head, see if you can find that video of when Hulk Hogan picks him. up over his head he hits it yeah that was crazy what did he weigh 550 550 pounds now 550 pounds just lifting him over your head with a barbell with an olympic bar is impressive yeah but doing it deadlift with a man well , the thing? about this is that it wouldn't happen unless Andre Ward does the right thing, of course, because he will push himself off course, yeah, I mean, yeah.

I remember one night, in the ring, he just swam me. I said, yes, you are but this. It's crazy, look at this, this is crazy if you look at where Andrés Anjar is, yes, he helps him, he helps him do a spell. He made me pick him up and hit him one night and he's like a booty man like no, the keys to him, no, yes sir, I went. under and suddenly it's stupid Simon, it was, I would use that athletic energy, my legs just ordered the buckle, yeah you gotta let go quick, well we can destroy pounds on his shaft, but Hogan was a fork and a jab, oh yeah , you know I knew him.

I met him later in life, but I had met him before. I ran into it on the street once and couldn't believe how big it was the second time I saw it. He was shorter because he had had so many back surgeries that his discs had been fused and he was still a giant human being, but he wasn't as big anymore, six eight, no more, yeah, about six four guys that Kramer told me when he was friends with Piper, he told me that when Hogan hit Andre that way he could feel it. just going all the way up is true, a clothesline ah Dre one night and you know I came in doing more because Andre wanted you to hit him hard, right, and how do you say it, it's the most frustrating thing in the world.

Never look at that anyway. you're trying to kill a guy and you don't even know it, yeah, so here I am, hitting him as hard as I could and he didn't know it, so when you got close, I mean, he used to hit me and I'd be falling, that's a lot energy. Me falling, he reached out and grabbed me by the hair and I just stood up and just pulled a single gear, oh, here you two are, look, that's weightless. 260 there wow that's so crazy that tendon is so crazy look how big he was he was so good he did a horrible thing to me one night in the rain he knocked me down and I'm on my back and he stands on my hair Oh He reached out and grabbed my arms and pulled.

Did you plan like this or did you just improvise? he'll eat it, you'll be able to watch the documentary they made about him on HBO Savage, no, Andre, yeah, she's really cool, you'd really love it, yeah, this is her too much, yeah, she made me cry, so yeah, yeah that does. I cry, I know what that man went through. Why did he pass? Just people pointing and laughing in pain. You can't, kind of stain. It was incredible. Yes, for wrestling. No, because of growth. Yes Yes. Let's think about a daily water. okay, a bed doesn't fit very well, right, let's talk about hotels and bathrooms, no, where is he in the bathtub? he just turned on the shower man he let it dissolve how would you like to do hot yoga in that bathroom in that shower just god in the bathroom airplanes cars that's another thing Piper told me a great story about you know how Everyone would always harass him so much in public and they were drinking one night after the shows and they were in some college town like, say, Madison Wisconsin or something and they were having drinks at a bar and Piper He was like these kids, these kids frat house, you know, they notice a few tables away and someone there, an empty beer can hits Andre in the back of the head, hits the floor, you know, Andre looks around, and they're leaving a couple of minutes later. another empty beer can hits Andre grunts a little louder and then a third beer can comes and Andre stands up and hits him in the head.

Andre gets up, you know it takes them a while to get out of the booth or whatever, wherever they are. and these guys get up and start running and chase Andre chases them but when he leaves the bar they are in their car about to drive away and Andre literally drives under the car in front of the bar and flips it over. there's a cop half a block away who draws blood and arrests them because with Andre the Giant, yes sir, he put his car in with them, those guys must be with me, I make a beer can, he could do a backflip standing on the top rope. a flip that we modified on his feet when he first started, but I'm fighting him and we had this little thing we do where you take me to the corner and then until that weight comes into me, you know, which was pretty easy to register. and then I would slide down and then he would grab each side of the rope until the last drop, of course, he has these ropes right, that night he wanted to do it and in his hand he slid, who suddenly saw his plans here and only you.

I know his vertebrae, sir, and I wonder: can I breathe? I just want to know if I can breathe because I can right now it's like screaming I turned on my side oh my god how bad is it? I fear my sternum has broken. whatever, yeah, it makes sense to try to catch your breath, try to let it all come back and at first I saw the lights coming. I was going to pass out and then I heard Andre laugh. I had the referee say: Andre, why are you laughing? It's hard. for two Emma what and I could feel my shoulder is vibrating and he is farting, you know how long a giant can fart, how long, about 40 seconds, it's like Wow, but it was a constant flow, I wouldn't know what he has 48 years old, where is the man in the park.

I came forward like a wine stain on my shoulders, oh, that amazing, amazing man, but I used to think that the fans don't really like me because they're putting me out there and the fans encourage me to charge against it. Big giant, you want me to be killed, right? Yes, your fans are cruel, why do they do this to me? Don't encourage me, tell me I'm stupid for coming out of the rain because the giant eats you.