FULL SEND PODCAST - Ric Flair x Nelk Boys | Ep. 90

Episode Date: June 23, 2023

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Have you ever seen his robes? No. I think that's where he got Rick Flair. Like, that's where people gave him his drip. He always, like, walked in in, like, a swag robe. He had, like, 35 of them. Yeah. So I think we could...

I have, like, a slideshow of pictures. We could talk about, like... Yeah, I'm not going to lie. I know who Rick Flares. Yeah. And we looked into him a little bit, but, like, bro, I just... No, I don't know. I still don't understand the WWE completely, but I've watched it.

I just don't... I could name, like, 10 wrestlers. I just don't get it. John Sina, you know who he is. I know John. I'm just saying I did not watch wrestling growing up at all. No, I did a few times, not a lot. I don't really watch it now either.

I watched, like, I just watched UFC. Yeah, me too. Like, I know, like, yeah, I don't know. But, I mean, Rick Flair is a magic. I mean, you're off your game anyway. Huh? You're off your game anyway. What do you mean?

Traveled here yesterday. There's five absolute smokes in the airport. Just so you guys know, like, I'm not the only one doing it because I look over at Kyle when he starts putting on his roly before he goes over and walks by him. I look back over at him. I mean, he's doing his Rubik's Q'd, but you were doing it in the backpack. But I think that you...

I did it as a joke, bro. No, you were starting to do it, bro. No, I asked him like... The inner nerd came out and you're in your backpack doing it. I didn't do that. If you start doing that in front of them, they're confused. So like, yo, this kid's actually, maybe he's smart too. But anyway, they asked you for a photo.

You FaceTime. No, well, first we saw five hot chicks and then a fan came up to us and asked for photos right in front of them. You said you were going to get their number first. Well, dude. So we're better. No, we're getting up. Stiney was supposed to get their number This is the truth

Stiney was supposed to get their number And then they all asked me for a photo Well I was behind you So I don't know if they But then the hot one said she's like Oh my boyfriend loves you guys So it was like one of those It just threw me off

Yeah no you didn't And she was like the hottest one The other ones were like But you just went 0 for 5 and I was really disappointed Yeah They said they were from San Diego too Close to the crib Yeah

I don't know I choked What happened? I don't know I just choked I just choked I just choked I think you're washed up or No definitely not washed up

definitely not washed up but no i know we have rick flair today imagine what he would do in that situation they would have went home with all five of them they're probably they're probably watching because we facetime their brother and chit so well here's your chance now toss me a dm there we go yeah they're from san diego too so that would have been and this was in the tampa airport and we're from we're in oce Miami airport Miami airport yeah all right well there you go maybe we'll see if that's no way that girl had a boyfriend a girl's trip to Miami no that was like a frabro just like yeah no way yeah you know it was though they probably cheated all all weekend and then

now they're like back to boyfriend mode yeah yeah like they're in the airport and they're like fuck what did we do this weekend what's the secret to the Rubik's cube there's not I mean there's a step move I looked it up yeah you got to there's like you don't solve the colors like that's where

you're really smart but no the white you have to get one side first and then there's patterns you got to memorize like based on different like what you see so I could figure it out or just take time yeah it would take time yeah a lot like a lot Way longer than it took me.

I bet. For sure. One YouTube video, I'll fucking have it down. How's your guys' show going? Good. Or Gabe might be removed soon, but it's going really well. Too much of a diva, bro. Really?

Yeah. You think I'm a diva? Here, why don't you just sit there for a second? But, yo, we're having a good time with it. It's doing well. I got a little lazy, so I'm sorry. My creative was fucked. I fell in love for two weeks.

Got distracted. She's gone. I'm back. So we're good. Like, the first class, fiend, like, you promise first class. is part of my agreement with him in this case, right? So if you're part of the contract, it is what it is. It's really not that.

No, but I'm telling you, I want to do that for you anyway, so it's all good. Yeah, so it's like, it's part of it. The one thing... When you tell somebody something, you do it, right? If you don't want to do it, just don't say it. No, but the one thing that does irritate me is, like, I don't remember promising, like, $1,500 dinners after every episode, and you do run up my bill.

You literally wrote the clip last podcast, Gabe Coughkech right now and book a 10 people table. How is that my fault? You give off that energy of like, yo, we got to go do something. I don't know. I'm a little stunning. I got to go home. I travel next day.

Right, message? What? I travel next day. Let's go home. I can't control it, dude. I can't. Yeah, well, that's your problem, bro. Like, bro, that's no one else's problem but your own.

But you give me that. I feel like I got to take care of you and shit. Well, thank you. Yeah. So don't fucking. You should be thankful. I'm thankful. Did you actually buy her that 5K bracelet?

Yeah. Yeah. That's fuck, bro. He won't you buy. Well, there was a couple. There was a couple behind the scene deals, don't worry. We'll roll with the narrative that it was 5K, but. Yeah, he got in a big trouble after that, but yeah.

Yeah. Fuck. Fuck, bro. Why do I do that stupid shit? I'm done with that. No, I dated this chick for two and a half weeks, bro, and like, I didn't buy her shit. I did buy her. I bought her a Louis bag, but it was a cheap one.

How much? 2000? Thousand. Used. See? How long have you known her? Like, how long have you been, like, seeing her? Two and a half weeks, but.

Okay, that's so dumb, bro. I would never do that. Okay, well, let me tell you the math. We spent every day together for two and a half weeks, so that equivalates to, like, dating for a month and a half. No. It was all day every day for two and a half weeks. I wouldn't, I don't know.

Do you bring you a girl to, like, where they'll drive and here, baby, does my car go by whatever. No, I didn't do that. I never done that in my life to a girl, but I would never, ever, ever do that to a girl that I just, like. Well, that's gone, so. Fuck, I don't know. I'd have to be dating a girl for, like, at least, like, three,

months to probably buy or something okay well this guy goes to New York and fucking go to you bought some big gifts in the past no I'm saying I bought but that's because well that's a little bit more than that for like a long time I'm saying a random chick that's just like crazy because like then they go they can go around and tell people that like you fucking splashed on them and shit kind of good I hope she tells her friends and then they fucking come around fuck with that I don't like yeah but then the next podcast that we do the girls like hey where's my bracelet so they expect you now to come to the part or hang out with him because of his money

not because of who he is. That's not true. Then you're also setting the standards so high because you're like you're like putting yourself in the category as like a baller and we're around so many big ballers that like are way bigger ballers than us. Can't compete. And like you're never going to be able to compete with that. You know?

Yeah. Is this like a fucking intervention right now or what's good? Can I just live my life how I want to? Well yeah you can. Your whole show is about flexing and shit isn't it? Yes and it's getting crazy. So I'm changing I have some I have some crazy creative coming up though you guys should actually tune in it's going to be wild and it's different. I'm not

fucking put an outfit again like no you're good you're good okay but you're not using the other guy too if you use that we're done I got a way better game well I'm standing up all right Rick Flair Dragon fruit

woo energy mushroom blend wait Rick is there actually mushrooms in it it's mushroom infused I don't know it tastes really good but man it'll wake you up And it keeps your wake for a long time. Need that.

So wait, it's functional mushrooms. It's really good, honestly. Try the strawberry. Joe Rogan drank three of them. And one sitting? No, of course, it was a day and a half. Let's see. How many of you had today?

I can't get it, believe it or not. We appreciate you coming. You're obviously a legend. We're really happy to have you. And we're going to get into all your stuff. But what's your life like right now? Like, what's your day-to-day like with like you got a bunch of new business? businesses and stuff with the weed and the energy drink.

Yeah, my life is the best it's ever been, to be honest with you. I'm busy. I'm the people I like to work for. I'm learning. What was like some of the businesses you're involved in like today? Well, the main one I'm involved in is the cannabis with Adam, Chad, and Aristotle. Let's talk about your career and how you got into wrestling, because you were in a league before the NWO. NWA?

Yeah, NWA. I mean, sorry. Well, actually, I started in a... an American Wrestling Alliance, AWA, and then I spent a year there training under Bern Gagne, and then I got a chance to move to North Carolina, which I only knew because I had to memorize the capitals.

It's about all I could do in school was memorize the capitals. And I got the Carolina when the highest building in Charlotte was 10 stories high. It was just me and Richard Petty. I don't like the door nobody Wow And now it's a thriving metropolis I don't do have been there but

No I haven't been there I've seen it grow like crazy Yeah well it's big Because all the NASCAR drivers are from there aren't they A lot of them live up in the lake Norman area about 30 miles out Yeah So how did your whole persona

Nature boy like Did you choose this persona How did it come about it? No I was in an airplane crash in 75 And I was just kind of finding my way around And I was getting a decent push But I really didn't have a I was half billion

Graham, half-dusty Rhodes, you know, trying to find myself and then George Scott, the promoted at the time. First of all, if I could wrestle again, which was a big question mark, let's look at a guy named Buddy Rogers, who was probably the best of his generation. Great physique, much better than mine. And he wore the rhinestone jackets and all that. So as my friend Harley raised, remember that name? Harley Reyes said, Flair took Rogers' gimmick to a whole new level. Well, can you tell us a story about the plane crash? Like, we're in a private jet?

No, it's a Sessna 3-10. Okay. So it was like a commercial flight or private flight? No, it was a private plane. Like a propeller. Well, here's the deal. We back in those days, we drove 3,000, sometimes 4.000. thousand miles a week but a minimum three and like an average week I'd give you like we

all lived in Charlotte so Charlotte Monday was either Greenville or Fayetteville to either way you're home that night Tuesdays either Columbia South Carolina or Raleigh if we went Raleigh then you just stayed in Raleigh because you had TV Wednesday and then you know off a big party Wednesday night Thursday Norfolk Friday Richmond um Saturday, Roanoke, and then you could be in Savannah in the afternoon in Greensboro at night. It's a 4,000-mile wait. But a lot of the towns are fun to spend the night in, so.

So anyway, we're going to Wilmington, and that's the first time that Michael Jordan once he came into the matches. Not this particular night, but I'd met him there when he was like 19. Well, I was in a bar one night, and this guy came up to me and said, you guys drive everywhere? I said, yeah. I said, it's a lot. He goes, I got a plane. You do?

Yeah, I said, I said, what would you charge to take us? I said, Raleigh, as an example. 100 bucks a piece. It's a hundred bucks a piece flying a plane? Well, we started banging out everywhere. And we should have known there was something wrong with the guy because he hit a jet street one time. You know, when you know what's tough that can be in a small plane,

following us 737 and the Norfolk in the plane went upside down. That should have been our first. Oh, my God. Did he do it on purpose or accident? He didn't even a pilot's license. So how do you get on the plane with him again after you go upside down one time? Because that price is too fucking good. You're not turning down that 100 bucks.

That's worth going upside down a couple times. Yeah, like going flying two towns and one day would be 100. twenty dollars yeah so yeah you're kidding up driving 4 000 miles did you guys ask him like yo what what the fuck happened there he just said we hit a jet stream i mean i've done that before on a big plane where you know a guy i'll follow a guy on too close a lot of things monitoring are monitored you know how complicated it is to be into the air traffic control situations especially in bad weather you know you got 30 planes over and over atlanta or chicago yeah so storm i've seen

have said. Yeah. But anyway, we just, we compensated for being overweight, 14,000 pounds, unbeknownst us, and we compensated by carrying less fuel. And we hit a headwind. Wellington's on the coast. And what he should have done is land in Raleigh, refueled, but it was 100, 100 miles more. And I guess he thought, you know, you could push it. So we crashed less than a quarter mile away from the runway. Do you remember, like, like, How did you first know, like, don't you remember? I just remember the right engine going, boom, boom, boom. He reached down and pulled the fuel.

I saw him reaching out, right? And there was no fuel, and he left engines, and didn't even go around. It went, we were sailing. We stuck in the ground at 230 miles an hour. And that's going through a tree, normally a orchard of trees, a cartwheel of plan, a small plane like that. We just tore the orchard on a tree orchard. Jesus.

Yeah, it landed in a railroad band. And one guy passed away, right? Pilot passed away, never regained consciousness. Two guys are paralyzed. I broke my back in three places. Another guy had insane intestinal problem for a while. David Brockett. He's still living here.

When you get off the plane like that, do you just feel like... It's tough to get back. on. Yeah. So when I got the clearance to go back to start wrestling, the first time they wanted me to fly it. Are you ready to fly? I don't know.

It was like a big 10 passenger jet lake. But every time, you know, when a smaller plane, when they blend mix, the fuel, you know, plane goes, the engine goes, until they fix the mixture on a prop plane. That noise used to drive me crazy. But, you know, like when all. all of a sudden you take off going wide open even on a big jet today and they'll see something

that they have to pull yank pull back on a throttle and still to this day it just you know throws me out of whack for a second but um i'm used to it now and i mean i've got a lot of time and i've got more hours and small planes by what i do you said you broke your back in three places yeah t-11 and 12 it used to be six foot two were you so were you unconscious like when you when you crashed and you woke up in the hospital yeah well back then they had his military albums that's right where they boom boom boom three on each side right and so i thought they said we're going to lose this one i thought they're talking about me so i'd written a note to this girl named sheila wait when on the way down no he thought he thought you said you thought you were

i was seeing this girl named sheila i was married but i was seeing this girl named sheila in Norfolk. So I had written her a letter, a note, right? So I go to the guy, I said, there's a note of my shaving kit, man. I said, get it. It's through a chick named Sheila in the hospital. But I realized I wasn't dead. Did she get the note back?

Tell Sheila, love her, but not to come see me. That's the sign of a true beauty. Your plane's going down and you're thinking of yourself. This is right before you. He's in the hospital. The ambulance. The guy, I think we're going to lose this one. That's legendary.

What about your main girl? Did you leave anything for her? Sure. Like your main girl at the time? No, my wife, I was married. Yeah, but did you think about her or just Sheila? Oh, of course. I was worried that Sheila would show up and she'd be there.

How many successful flights do you think you had with this guy before that? Believe it or not, probably about 50. Maybe it made more than that. We were using them all the time. Fuck, man. How long did it take you to recover? You said you would break her back three times. Well, it's supposed to be here, but, you know, our business is,

I was lucky they liked me a lot. So they were paying me a thousand a week. But, um, supposed to be a year, but I was back in the ring March 18th. So how long? October 5th of March 18th. I went from 255 to 180.

Wow. And I went back to work at the ring. I only weighed like 218. How much did that change like your styler? Like did you have to change your entire the way you? No, we spent time looking at footage of buddy and all that. And I technically was probably as good a wrestler. He was, I just had to get, I had to get it in my mind, you know.

And then I, then I saw Joe Namath. I went, that's the ticket. Yeah. Lain on the couch in Miami. Yeah. When at first I heard, he banged, that he pounded 300 chicks in Alabama. Fresh one here, my hero. Yeah, well, he's one of the goats.

Is that what made you want to get into wrestling, like chicks? No, no, but I like that character of Joe. He joined him with, was what people, well, I know Joe pretty well now, too, not real well, but, yeah, I've had some good talk to him. He was a wild man in college. He was only think he didn't own Tuscaloosa. Yeah. Did you, so did you develop relationships with, like, other, a lot of other athletes? You said you met Michael Jordan when he was 19.

I know Michael, yeah. I know Michael. You met him when he was at UNC. Sure, of course, yeah. James Worthy was there. All those guys are my friends. I see Jane's Worthy all the time at signing. who were some of like the biggest fans of you when like athletes you said nameth uh jordan but like

wrestling i feel like in the 80s was so big and like the the lifestyle party scene was even bigger we were well conditioned like like um the comparison would be the rockers right like we took motley crew up when they they didn't make it to the concert next day they thought they could party where'd you guys party that time really was laying face down Jacksonville Florida oh fuck

he still ain't got out of the floor that's crazy how did it like become I'm the partying lifestyle in the wrestling like how did that become so big did you ever see the movie Johnny Cash

yeah that was that was us in old days who like led the charge was that you wrote huh did you like lead the charge no I mean we all just brought cars I always would like to be in control of my own destiny.

So I like driving my car. Yeah. Because if you go in somebody else's car, then you're on the road, then you're on their time frame to work out, go to the gym and all that. So, you know, I got a, I got to rest one time. And reciprocal agreement had just gone in to affect with different states. I had 86 moving violations in two years. The judge put me in jail for 30 days.

So I had appealed to superior court for, for, virtual speeding and they only find me $25 and let me go. Wow. But I thought I was going to sit there for 30 days. What was jail? You went to jail for 30 days? He sentenced me to 30 days in jail. I'm in,

for a speeding. He said, you said, you've got a problem. That is a lot 86 times in one year. No, two years. Oh, two years.

Okay. That's not bad. That's a lot in a lifetime. In South Carolina, the old days, they rent your ticket to tear it up and throw in the road and keep going. I like that. I'd get three and one night driving.

back from Charleston. And you could have beer in a car back then. I mean, prior to Strom Thurman's daughter, getting hit at five points, and now South Carolina is a bitch boy that could open. I mean, you have an open container.

I think it's a thousand dollars a can. Something like that. And jail time. Yeah. Hell yeah. I mean, you guys are all in such good shape, too. So how do you like party like that and then stay where you need to be?

Yeah. It's just becoming the frame of mind in a way you like. Are you still going to the gym every day, even after partying and all that? I was then, yeah. I don't go every day now, but I try to go at least three times a week. Yeah, how do you go to the gym after like a super... You just do it. Yeah.

It becomes a way of life. And then later on, when we start flying everywhere, then you sleep on the way to the flight in the next city and get up and do it again. Yeah, that's crazy. What was one of a, you remember, like, a crazy party night? Like one of your favorite memory? I know there's a lot or like top three or something

like Motley crew partying with them back then that's fucking that's crazy it was called Russell Rock was a show that a guy put on in Jacksonville it was just fun

but nothing those guys going to hang with guys like Roddy Piper and that they thought they could what can you tell us about the four horsemen I can but one of them's in marriage

I don't tell stories about them okay one guy survived we don't have to say names but there's no right yeah he didn't want to be part of my documentary he said hey i like you but i ain't talking i'm telling myself

where was your spot like where was your favorite place to go out in the u.s oh god and where where like in the country uh the snuggery in chicago which is on rush street it was um gifson in chicago norfolk um um jesus guy named rex herison who played the Rams at a place called um um jeez i'm going back the 80s anyway it was me prenell Whitaker aren't it no i believe arnold these aren't me pernell woodaker and bruce smith was bruce smith's 30th birthday you know bruce is right many times 13 times all pro right yeah yeah you're grabbing three shots of jack and i don't know how many grams is cocaine Bruce, sorry

Miss the legend But Pee-Pee's gone no man It's just you and me Now I can't get Bruce to drink red wine Holy shit Yeah Some of these guys makes a drastic turns in their life They were telling us downstairs

That you watched Andre the Giant drink 100 plus beers And how long I've seen them drink two gallons of wine too And I've seen them drink every bottle Keep in mind that it's 747 There's obviously other parents passengers but who can drink a 747 dry dry on vodka going to Tokyo so you're saying though that

you watched him drink a hundred beers 10 in what time period 10 o'clock at night till 5 a.m. That's like Steve will do it times five yeah is that pop yeah but two gallons of wines you more breasted what kind of shape is he in after that fine how the fuck does he do that 106 beers is 500 pounds guys are crazy he is yeah 500 pounds is a lot but 100 beers pretty wild but I've seen I got friends my size I have friends my size or maybe like 270 they could drink 50 beers where do you find these guys the bar no the wrestling friends yeah Barry Darso very are Barry shout you out 56 beers Myrtle Beach um yeah the guy named Harley race. I don't know how to tell you about him. We had a lot of interesting characters

in our business. Yeah, I think it's pretty unique that you guys. That's a whole different world right now. Had such a good relationship like outside the ring like that. You don't see that. Yeah, no, you don't, you don't see anywhere in life anymore. I like, I really enjoyed last night my experience with Brett Hall and these hockey players are really badass guys, you know, I don't know. Yeah. I mean, I'm not saying all of them are real good fighters, but all those kids are that 4% body fat and skating two shifts or two-minute shift why don't put up and down that ice i mean you got to be in incredible shape but the camaraderie last night to see ty and and uh and brett hull you know because one of ties our rivals was brett's teammate you know and they're

telling funny stories about guys and yeah you know i don't think the world permits you to do that anymore they they create animosity they don't want the kids just partying relax and have a good time they wanted to be they're so conscious with social media for sure I guess that's the right way to put it well it's probably so different right I mean people tell us all the time back in the day

you guys didn't have to worry about phones or fucking anything right I mean it was a lot if you had a wife too or a girl it was way easier to cheat now it's pretty much like it's impossible oh I do personal speaking engagements and I tell everybody the first thing I say is what's what ruined the world

for all of us guys I hold my cell phone So one time my wife told me, my third wife, she goes, I called her, she had to be buffalo for a while. I'd go up to the room and call, which I had never done, right? So I'm here, I'm going to go downstairs and have some beers with John Sina. And so she had the nervous saying to me, what do you have in common with someone 30 years younger? John's exactly 30 years younger than me, right? I said, you know what? Let me think about that. I'll get, back to you um in the meantime the guest house is 40 feet from the front door being it when i get on tomorrow boop down front desk no calls down to the bar yeah because now the i feel like girls

are such detectives on social media i think they're i'm james bond but don't you just assume rick like if you're in a club though you got to assume that like anything you do in that club is going to be filmed we hope so yeah i guess yeah i'm filming i take pictures of all the entertainment and send to chat and i know i know to adam always respond chat turns phone off in eight o'clock at night but i send him over to adam i don't want to hear of style getting booed out of the house either i sent all the good stuff over to adam and i'm going you the man what's your what's your favorite place to party now. God, where?

Miami. Oh, in Miami. Yeah, we had the best times down there. I think Miami's by far number one right now. I prefer it to Vegas. Vegas is nice, but the problem, where I used to be able to stay out all right in Vegas, I mean, I can do anything, but I get tired and nothing starts so 11 o'clock. Vegas was probably way better in your era, right?

Like, I feel like it was. Oh, my God, in Vegas, you had to wear a coat and tie. Now it's a redneck river here. People walk around the most expensive casinos and shower shoes and that. I mean, it's nothing like the Vegas than I knew in the 80s. Yeah, that's where everyone you said are right. I was just some of those guys who are hiring hookers. They're pretending like old blue eyes over in Frank Sinatra.

Yeah, that's crazy. Danny sends up three. Something that a lot of wrestlers said about you, it seems like you still have it. You just had the best and the most energy out of anybody. I do. Where does that come from? And how do you still have it like this? Brad Hill said, you're the most famous guy in the world.

I said that's still alive, yeah. They all said you're considering you the goat, too. I don't know about that. Who was like one of your favorite, I guess, rivalries or just? Opponent? Yeah. My favorite of all time is steamboat. Dusty Rhodes, Sting.

I've been lucky to, you know, like Hulk. I mean, I met Hulk. We met when he was young that I didn't see him for years, but every time he and I had touched, we'd made him money. It's just that they didn't want me They kind of deal with me with WCW And those guys came over was out of mind Or out of sight, out of mind, you know

But they always came back to me for something But I really wasn't part of it But every time I got around Hulk Then I didn't matter whether I never won But it was in a position that I wanted to be in Does that make sense? Yeah Yeah, it's so easy to work.

That guy, he was so over. He comes down. The only guy I've seen like him was Kerry von Eric in Dallas in the old days. When they made that video of Kerry riding at Palomino, like in the Tarzan movie, like the boat Eric in that, right? And go to Rocky's music. Brother, the chicks love that kid. We had three major rides at reunion arena. Was it like a competition and like who could get the most girls between you and the other guys?

Oh, most definitely. Do you think you were the number one spot? I was in the top two or three. Can you give my boys he's going through it right now? Because he's like he doesn't have his game. Do you have any advice for him? Always make him come to you. That's what I tell you.

They try to cut them out of the herd. They think you're special. And they think in India to get some special audio. Let them come to you, talk to them in sign language. I hear. I hear. Do you want to go upstairs? I hear.

Fuck, I guess I'm going to switch it off. What does that mean? I hear. I ready to go. I ready for any kind of action. Fuck. So you can't be like, and then you walk over to them, you're screwed. Oh, here you can.

Because then you're just like every other guy. No, no, because her grovers are saying, I told me to come over to you, told me to come over to you, and just stop walking a mile. So you don't give them attention to fuck with them. You come over to my table and get a picture with my family. I said, absolutely not.

Do they only come over to my table and get a picture with me? I'm fine. But I'm not getting out of my chair to walk. What a stupid question. Were you a big, would you ever like? Like somebody buying you a drink, right? and people I'm notorious for this but we were laughing about last night

you let's someone buy a drink that means you got to talk to him can you just got to buy a drink no just by a drink no this guy wants to buy a shot no because then you got to talk to them right yeah but it was just going thank you but

the minute they send you a beer here they come yeah that's true you owe them something yeah yeah forget it were you uh would you ever like buy girl's shit he's a big like he buys like random girls jewelry and Are you kidding? Yeah, Rick, I know you were about that life, too.

So I was, I was, um. How many times have you been married? Four. Ten great years. 20 great years, 27 actually. We were together. Two years and then three months. Would you recommend marriage?

No. Not until you live with home for at least five years. Yeah, marriage is... And I wouldn't recommend children out of wedlock either. I want to talk about the robes because they're so legendary, right? How many of them do you think you...

How many different ones do you think you have? Do I have them right now? How many do you think you had overtime? Like 35, 40? No, 43. Okay. And how many do you still have? Two.

Wow. And what happened to the rest? Wives stole them all. They what? Wives stole them all. I left two on a F, I was flying back from Germany on Lufthansa and I had two robes with me and I was drinking with Ricky Steamboat and I got off the damn plane with all the robes that were above my head and walked through customs by the time I got back through customs there was no TSA either the time I got back through there they were gone damn your robes are a big part of your character and like you think that's probably where like the Rickler dribs started yeah and a jewelry I always liked a lot of

jewelry and did you come up with it like did you have a designer who came up with your robes for you or like oh yeah Olivia Walker made them all for me you have the greatest seamstress she made all this stuff for Glenn Campbell Ritalin um Tammy winette George Jones yeah the outfits were such a big like yeah that's what he meant I feel like that kind of doesn't stay like it's not as important to the wrestlers now but back then it was such like your look was everything yeah I know, and now it's, you can wear tennis shoes and jeans, and they all wear a t-shirt, a market t-shirts that markets are,

I don't get it, but, you know, I'm not anyone to judge or compare it to because I don't, I didn't always make the wisest choices in life. I just tried to look like, remember my dad said to me one time, that's one of the poems I lost on that loop stanza. My dad said one time, he said, what do you think of, The patient When you saw it, they came and seen me She walked in my office

I was wearing sandals, chargers I said, we'd never do that She said, well, dress the part when you go to work That always stuck with me Did you have a favorite robe ever? No, the peacock was my favorite Peacock is the one Mulligan tore up on TV

That's the one I beat Harley Race with What do you think? So are you a fan of today's wrestling and stuff or no? Yeah, very much. Yeah. Yeah, the outfits were drip back then. They were nice. What do you think is the biggest change from then to now that you've seen?

Marketing. Yeah. You think, what about marketing exactly? Well, we didn't know how to market us, though. We weren't always on national TV. You know, for years there have been closet fans. Yeah. Like, you know, I mean, you know, all successful, Chad.

It's not going to brag about a success. But Chad grew up watching wrestling A lot of people don't like to admit that It's much more fashionable now But there were doctors and lawyers watching this years ago Of course They didn't say we're a wrestling family That was for the rednecks

And it was You know what I'm saying? Or whatever it was The blue-collar white color Yeah So Steve Austin kind of defined that You know, that's what Steve did He did whatever he worked in a blue-collar guy

I wanted to do with his boss with Vince when he said, fuck you, right? Yeah, yeah. And it blew the business wide open. But now they've told me that what they call the, what was I call it, the attitude era because they were losing sponsors because of the cussing and all that. So now they're not PG, but they're looking for the children's audience too. That makes sense?

Yeah, for sure. Where it used to be, we couldn't walk into a hotel that wasn't packed of women. Now, it's a guy's soap opera. Yeah, I know. And it's all, there's an girl in the bar. God forbid, I used to tell them what all we were staying. 18 to 28, no boyfriends, no husbands, the Marriott. You said that on national TV, right?

Every time I had a chance. What would that? So you could just shut out the after party? My wife would say, why I tell everybody we were staying in the Marriott? I said, we get a deal. Stay there for free. What do you think? What would that look like when you do?

say it. You'd say 18 to 28, no girlfriend, so much. Why didn't you're wearing a wedding ring? I said, because I'm a gimmick. People think I'm a playboy. What would that look like when you'd shout that out? How many people would show up in a bar? When you would say, hey, come here. Oh, God, at the Crocker Cup in Baltimore, where they shut the hotel down? We had a suite on top of the hotel. And guy and girls were leaving their boyfriends and husbands and riding the elevator up at a bodyguard. We had 300 chicks. up there in about 20 of us that's good ratio yeah damn yeah i went downstairs to check out in the morning my credit card balanced higher than michael jordan you can jump i go gary this got a motor

go gary my my plastic is not working right now you get down and check me out of here i got to catch a plane yeah i read something that uh i can't remember which which wrestler was but he said that you guys showed up to a hotel and it was like 500 a night back in the 80s and he was like like so pissed off and you're like dude it's it's part of the image like we have to do this got the girls no you have to do what like you have to spend this kind of money i know it's part of my gimmick yeah so so do you were you just blowing through it like does any of you regret that or you're just living in the moment like i didn't regret it back then but the irs has explained to me several times why i shouldn't regret it this whole thing is a savior issue you know

it's like saving rick flare yeah not becoming Rick Flair, saving Rick Fler. The Becoming, that's just one part of the documentary, the saving. I'm actually getting a rebate this year. I'm going to follow my chair. I said, say that again. And two brothers, you're getting back for you have $380,000. I want you got it.

I mean, my heart's good to beat. I thought I had my face big. It was broken. A rebate? You know, it's so funny because we were talking about how back then, everybody had their personality and i was looking at it in because obviously rick flared drip by migos it's a banger but you're mentioning 11 rap songs so like conier west mentions you megos does that like surprise you or do you care no i basically i know i know i know every one of them

the only guy i've never met is drake yeah and a tie just signed fusion and i yeah tiger shouts you out i'm not tied chad just signed fusion and uh i think he's going to do something with me and Mike about, is that, would I say fusion? Future, sorry. Do you have like a favorite song or anything where you're shouted out or that you listen to to get you going? Rick Flair drips a bang.

How often do you listen to that just to get it? You know, it's over two billion hits on that. Yeah, it's a, on all forms of, so, of, um. That beats so hard. Yeah. How did they reach out to you to do that? It's a strange story. Um,

I had just, I got out. the hospital in October and they reached out to me and I didn't have any memory going backwards no memory going backwards for six months I can remember the day I woke up and I knew the people that are with me but I couldn't remember anything from the past I was just dreaming you just dream you see everything that's ever happened in your life wow all goes before you really yeah you just dream then you wake up and you go But I couldn't remember anything.

I couldn't remember who I had a lawyer. Didn't know it when I had to hire a new lawyer. I mean, it was a nightmare. So it's a gift. I mean, everything I'm getting right now is a gift. This is the recovery and saving Rick Flirri episode. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A whole other chapter.

Yeah, I know. That's crazy. Like, do you ever look back at everything you've been through and like even the plane crash? Like, you got struck by lightning. We didn't talk about that. How many, was it once or twice? Well, I got hit my umbrella once, but I was in a small, in a Seneca 2, which is a small plane. He got hit on the Fourth of July, brother, smackle.

Was that, you couldn't feel the electricity, but brother, when you get a strong shot, or it really hits the wing of the plane, you might as well think. What about the umbrella? Like, where were you? Well, getting off a plane in Richmond, this was before jetways. So you got off the plane, you spring. And they kept all of us on the ramp, right? because it was on there, they're not going to drop.

So there's a U.S. Air Jet, Eastern Jet, and Delta. I was on Eastern, I think. So anyway, no jetways, and they can't let you get off the plane. So finally, I mean, I'm late for the arena. The weather was bad. I'm wrestling in steamboat that night in Richmond, Coliseum. And so finally, they go, okay, you're clear, and they hand you out.

I apologize, you get off first class, right? And, man, I'm walking kind of like in a real rapid, pace trying to get because i was i was going to leave my suitcase there and come back and get it had to drive everybody for me and uh all of a sudden that something started pulling on my hand i went what's the fun and my own blood just yanked out of my hand it shut straight up there i went what my hell and what happened i hit that you know they get those metal rods on top of them yeah you don't see that anymore no no really it hit that bounced off that and hit the guy right behind me, 10 feet behind me in the eye, killed them.

What the... I just stood there and froze. I mean, I just, the most cowardly act of my life, I just froze. Everybody's running out of the door, hollering and screaming. I couldn't believe what I saw. Why just survive back to school when you can thrive by creating a space that does it all for you, no matter the size. Whether you're taking over your parents' basement or moving to campus,

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There were two experiences, right? Oh, the other one was at West. A lightning bounced off an umbrella and hit someone else. You've had a few near-death experiences here. It's funny, though, nothing is bad as when I were in the hospital for 31 days. I see you. I couldn't even open a Canada. I had to learn how to walk again.

I didn't have a speech pathologist, and I had that stone on my side for a year and a month. And what were you in the hospital for for that specific time? Rupured it, I had a complete ruptured intestine. I was septic, which was a terrible part, which means the infection that spread everywhere, right? I had a respiratory heart failure, pneumonia, and total kidney failure. Two kidney machines to get me back up and running.

That's crazy. Like, you've been close to death a lot. And Wendy stayed in that room. She never left. She had what's called, what do you call that psychosis? When you're like in this environment for so long. Anyway, some kind of psychosis she got where she did. And she just played Johnny Cash for me over and over again.

What came back on, like, your entire career? Do you have any big regrets or decisions you wish you wouldn't have made? Oh, God, a lot. All family related. I realize now there are days I could have taken off if I'd really put my foot down. But when everything is so political, I just didn't. And I've definitely made some terrible mistake of women. Sorry about that.

The truth. One thing that, this is kind of switching topics, but one thing I'm curious is when you're in the ring and you have these feuds, like how do you ever get heated or did you ever like lose your temper? Many times. And how do you control that? Because you are still kind of like fighting this guy. Well, if I can beat the guy like in real life, I can control it.

If I can't beat the guy in real life, I got to kind of figure it out if we go. It doesn't happen very often. and when it did did that change like the whole dynamic for you like when it did it does it ever get personal just made it just made it much more physically aggressive yeah yeah and then did you guys ever have situations outside of the ring where it was like did it ever go outside the ring or no with two guys yeah oh yeah Jesus absolutely I might happen every night and not every night to me but it's hard to get along in the contact sport you know where everybody thinks they have to win to make more money which is not the truth i'm living proof that if you can make somebody look

really good make them enhance their look enhance the entertainment value of the match and lose that's an art that's totally lost i never i've won 16 matches and i've lost 5,000 Yeah, 11,000. Does that make sense? Yeah. What's the most important thing to, like, get your own fan base? Just find something that separates you from anybody else. You know, mine was a limiting ride and private jet flying and all.

And people bought into it. I mean, people actually thought that was me. Yeah. But I may, there's a place called Freedbonds in Atlanta. I bought 234 pair of alligator shoes since 1980. How much was that? I walked in there one day with Pete Robes, Dave Parker, Ozzie Smith, and Dave Parker, Pete Rose, Ozzy Smith.

And those guys bought $48,000 worth of shoes. There's a fourth guy, Johnny Bench. And then said, I bought $8,000 worth. So I just try to keep up with him. Oh, God. And I see Pete all the time now, right? He's signing autographs in Vegas still? I sign with Pete all the time.

Oh, really? Yeah. He's a funny guy, man. Yeah. He's got them great stories. I mean, Pete played with Mickey Mantle and people. Yeah, yeah. These people were crazy.

Mickey Mantle drank more than me. Really? Yeah, a 321 bad on average, 550 home runs. I mean, you know, Jesus is a T. Mickey Mantle lived. When I think back on these guys, and you hear these stories from Pete, you know,

who did all, those guys drove in the old days. Why do you forward, like, Whitey Ford, Mickey Mantle and Moose Scowardle, those guys would drive from New York to Boston. Just a party? No, no, they would drive to the town like we did. Yeah, yeah. They don't have private jets in that. That's wild to think about.

Oh, Mickey Mantle was open. Especially him, really? Yeah, you've got to give us a story about him because he's like. Well, I've never been around him. I just know the stories I've heard about, you know. The movie, the movie you picked him perfectly. Yeah. But I don't believe these movies unless I hear from someone that knows them.

Yeah. So I'm really good friends with Chris Christopherson, right? He says everything you heard about Johnny Cash. That movie, Johnny Cash, it's one of my favorite movies of all the time. But Johnny and Elvis and those guys in the backseat of the car. I mean, that was it. And the big bopper getting on the plane and getting off the plane because he was afraid of the weather.

And who's the kid with the glasses that got on and died in the plane crash? What are you do? You guys know what I'm talking about. That'll be the day, the day that I had to die. Not Ray Charles, right? Buddy Holly. Oh, okay. Remember the big bopper got off the plane and Buddy Holly got a,

and they crashed that airplane crash. Fuck, damn. It's like the kids from, what's that band that crashed in Spartanburg, the lead singer, Leonard Skinner. Dude, why are all these guys getting in plane crashes? Yeah, what's the guy? Who was the lead singer at Leonard Skinner? I still see one of the guys in the band in Nashville periodically.

But, you know, because back then or if they're flying shit airplanes, nobody knows. Some guys says, I can haul you around, right? Instead of riding a bus, they get on the plane. Are you still partying like that now? No, I go out. I don't party like that. No. I have been up.

I am. Stuttering a little bit there. I don't partying. like I used to know but I still have a good time yeah yes if you could change one thing about today's like WWE wrestling what would what would that be I wouldn't change anything about it because at the end of the day it's better the kids who got they don't have health insurance but then basically pays for anything that happens within the ring or at business and the guys are making a lot of money and um he's a lot of that's why I

don't do a lot of old-time or stuff like that, that something I play in Vegas have all the time. Wrestlers, anyway, I can't complain. It's a different life than what I did,

even from 2006, but it's better. It's healthier. And, you know, running out, it was a lot of fun to survive back then, and maybe

people we had everything going to the guys have now that would slow you down i don't know what would slow me down i'd probably be have a real tough time right now even with social media i like to go out yeah i never drink at home never you're not financials guy you're more of a social drinker i'm i've got to be i got to be with people yeah that's like me it's the best time of your life and telling stories you know you meet some people like like whenever i go to these signings i hang around with pete and Pete Rose told him about Willie Mays and then you grow up in people like yesterday

I was with Brett Hall and I hadn't seen Brett in a while and talking about his dad and everything and so the golden jet Bobby Hall was the man right so he goes he says to me can you imagine that the old son bitch was staying with me at my house he's talking about his dad Bobby and he said I went to a bit early

because I'm in the playoffs and his wife my wife and Bobby my dad sat and I was there and drank another bottle of wine so she walked him upstairs the room

she walked out of the room he said hey if the kid down there can't take you can't get it done the night remember the old man's out right down the hallway and so she told Bobby

she said Bobby he'll He said, Daniel, fuck, you have a, you haven't had a girlfriend a heart on since you're 80 or 83. And so I said, I'm 74. I said, you give me a five year window, Brett. He started laughing like, hell. He said, you're 74?

I said, yeah, you just gave me a five year window. And I'm trying to score this trick right here. Are you, are you single now? No, I'm not single. I have a partner. I'm not married, but I have a great part. partner Wendy what's the most expensive thing you ever think you bought one of your girls is it the Rolex no this is a great story no it's that dumb numnuts what I was

talking about so because I had just bought my wife a five-carat yellow yellow um five-carat yellow mistake the woman's cushion cut one was with God shit well I can't I remember Mark Key, whatever, or in the audience and all the cuts of all that, for 105 grand. So I liked this girl so much, and I was pissed that I bought that rain, and something happened that made me just go off the edge. So I went, I went, bought the chicken, a $110,000 cushion cut, met diamond from this place, right? Yeah. And gave it to an over-engagement ring.

that was the worst thing I was the worst thing so she got away with a lot well she had to sell it oh but I mean I mean the watches the rains I reposed the

I report the I just bought her a new Porsche I repowed that too fuck let's go I got a couple things back that's good the good thing about all my ex-wives yeah

know what it is they love you for you none of them I've ever remarried that that's a huge win that's a huge win at the W brother

Yeah, that's a huge win. Why do you think that is? Who are they going to memory? They obviously weren't good people, right? You're not alive anymore. I mean, the one that slept with 10 of your friends is not going to find somebody, right? I don't know. Not me.

I can't believe she did that, bro. I'm hurt by that. I am too, especially when you stay right up front. All you got to do is say, yeah. Then nothing happens. Everybody walks away. That's scary, how a chick. Verbal masseuse.

Yeah, you're scaring me, dude. I want to call my girl right now and see where she is. Never raise her voice. I had been in a very... Your girl does go on a lot of coffee runs. Not like I think of that. I had been just... Balls of argumental state, right?

With a screaming just to stop, you know what I mean? And that's when you know you're... Especially when the kids come upstairs and I'm just... It's horrible. So all of a sudden this is like, I refuse to talk like that, Rick. You can stop screaming and we'll talk. So I'm sorry, I'll learn. And it really was like a calming period for me, but it won me over.

Is that make sense? Yeah, yeah. Verbal and Sousse. Let's go to Miami, boys. Yeah, yeah, we should actually. Miami? I would go. It's like a 40-minute flight, right?

So anyway, I got to do the girl pilot. So I go to play the state and I said, I've already got a room. I said, well, I didn't you go to the room? We got time to go to the bar. Did you hang out with her, the girl pilot? No, I tried, though. You ever took down a flight attendant? it oh jesus if i ever taking down a flight attendant yeah how many which airline yeah let's go

take my specialty are you kidding wait so what a little girl in the high school's she better like to get to know you better hello mr flare welcome aboard yeah Wait, did you take them down on a public flight, though, or after, like, the flight? I have run to the goddamn gate before TSA with a redhead five feet ahead of me, tell me, say, back 10 feet, let me fix my hair. I run to the doors, you go, hello, I'm sorry, how are you, all your evening? It was great, waking me up in Charlotte. You ever took him down a Spirit Airlines dirty flight attendant or no? No. Okay, good.

The best was at Singapore airline, man, before they put the straps on that place. I'd never seen anything like it before in my life. You got a Singapore and Airlines flight attendant? Did I get one? Wow. And that's the one where they wear like the hot outfits with the hats and shit, right? No shit, yeah. Damn.

Yeah, pour your glass of champagne and give you a Hong Kong. How do you do it? What's your secret sauce? That was it with the 80s. The 80s are the top. to be alive, bro. The 80s were the time to be alive, it sounds like. Hell yeah.

Why are flight attendant so hot, eh? Like, it's like a fantasy thing. They go up two points just for being a flight attendant. Well, wait, wait, wait, they did. Let's not root back out of that now. The times will change. But I just like to have fun. And a lot of people do like to have fun.

But you've got to be very choosy who you pick to have fun with now because they can get mad overnight. You can be one minute. You can be the hero the next minute they're mad at you or something. Yeah, it's definitely, well, it's different for us, too, because you experienced 80s, 90s where things were so different. So you probably were accustomed to that. Well, I started in the 70s, so.

Yeah, but I mean, like now for us, we're so used to this, like, got to be careful with everything you do. Yeah, literally. And I mean, I, because of the situation and the opportunity that's been presented to me now by Chad and Aristotle and Adam, I'm even more careful. Yeah. Because I go,

Jesus, you know, I just don't want anything stupid to, I mean, I, you know, I always try to be polite and everything, you know, but I go out of my way now to be... You've got to be over polite,

even stand up on some of a woman comes to the table. I stand up. I mean, all stuff my dad taught me how to do, and I insist that I do, but I'm just overly aware of it because all eyes are on you. Yeah.

You ever been out here in Tampa? I'm sure you have, but... Oh, recently or no um recently all weekend oh you were here all weekend oh nice how was that great what'd you guys do drank nice where's the spots around here like what's a good spot well i got two places i'm like i'm going to show adam in the town tonight so i'll probably take you adam and these girls um friends of ours to the meat market

and that wants to go from the meat market against the every tomorrow night too right at him I said tomorrow night tomorrow night

it'll be that'll be a basketball game no tomorrow night Thursday is the first night of the playoffs yeah I'll just

I'll take him to Pearl Boulon meat market American Social I'll find I'll find out where the vibe is

we'll go I got to have a driver Nothing crazy, maybe just one or two Just one or two, yeah Five or six I don't know It doesn't sound like you do one or two often

Maybe now Oh, I thought it was talking about girls Fuck Fuck Just kidding Just kidding I'm down No you're not

It sounds like fun All right, well let's do it We gotta see this in action now Huh? You guys are in town tonight, right? Yeah, we are now. So what hell? Might have to push back that 8 a.m. flight a little bit, but.

I was supposed to go to Miami tonight. I'll change it. Forget that. Well, yeah, I'll change it now. I've got to see this in action. Maybe me and you are the power. I got five girls getting drunk on my boat right now. Huh?

I got five girls on getting drunk on my boat right now. Really? Yeah. Why don't we go to the boat right now? We got another podcast to do. We got another podcast. Do it on the fucking boat? Five friends.

shit well we gotta do we like go there it's my chick probably round five me and me and adam will be there let's fucking do it

I mean this is like we can't turn this down we'll do this for our no life jackets and everything oh my god yeah let's have a night tonight hell yeah fuck let's do it

all right well I think this is awesome by the way I have a friend in this town that owns a six strip club so I don't do them but you guys want to go we have to

I feel like you check this down let's let's fucking do it like you used to do it how can we shut Shout out. No, no, not that much. What? We have, come on.

We have an 80s throwback night. It's an 80s throwback night one time. Yeah, I don't think so. Let me get this brand launch a little bit more securely. Let's not go back until the 80s. Over, we will be passing out Rick, thick Rick tonight for the girls. Yeah, wait. So we never talked about thick Rick.

What's thick Rick? The, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, marijuana, a cannabis product for a wrecked out of this function. Really? Do you know how that works at all? Or how's that? Yeah. How does marijuana help that?

I can't explain the medical side of it, but it's, well, the Rickford drip is actually the priority. 15 states, you guys said, right? I think I am, Mike's in 24, right? 28. I'm in 15. And then they're launching overseas every day. It moves so fast.

And I wasn't, I mean, I knew cannabis because I've had a lot of people coming to me, but it just wasn't the right time for me to, number one, because I work for WWE. And I think they're even tuned into it now a little bit because there are so many positive effects that people were turning their nose up to and wouldn't listen to it, wouldn't hear about.

But it's going great for me. I mean, I'm just campaigning when, you know, I follow these guys lead and they send me and sign autographs and help promote the product and I'm having a great time doing it. And I'm having fun because of people, which is a big part of my life, if I can't have fun doing something, I don't want to do it. I've done a lot of things I didn't like doing. This I really enjoy doing. And I'm hanging around with world-class people and there couldn't be a nicer guy in the world

of Mike Tyson. Yeah, that's awesome. What's something you like learned about the business that you didn't know? The women love it. Well, I can be said for that. Yeah. I can't get it shipped in fast enough.

Really? I'm the most popular guy in Tampa when I voted down with Florida. All right, I think this is great, right? Rick, you're a fucking legend, bro. Thank you so much for doing this. Thank you guys. Yeah, awesome.

All right, thank you.