บทถอดความฉบับเต็มของ Andre Agassi Part Four - Meth Letter Blues

hair talk slash one sided pillow fight, 84 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:33.240 not pillow fight between the two of them, but on 85 00:03:33.360 --> 00:03:36.479 Jiagacy fighting at least one pillow that we know of. 86 00:03:36.639 --> 00:03:38.680 I meant to bring a pillow for us to punch, 87 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:42.479 but fuck yeah, do you want to just hit the wall? 88 00:03:43.120 --> 00:03:44.520 I just put a hole right through. 89 00:03:45.159 --> 00:03:48.840 Yeah. Man, hey, anything for this audio only process. Oh, 90 00:03:48.879 --> 00:03:50.479 people would hear it. They would hear it. 91 00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:54.520 So they had that talk. We mentioned this also the 92 00:03:54.599 --> 00:03:58.039 night before brook Shields was due to have surgery on 93 00:03:58.159 --> 00:04:01.680 both of her on her wig, both of her feet 94 00:04:01.719 --> 00:04:03.960 at the same time, which you would think that's more 95 00:04:03.960 --> 00:04:05.439 a surgery he'd be having. 96 00:04:05.759 --> 00:04:08.280 But I don't know, man, I don't know. We seem 97 00:04:08.360 --> 00:04:10.520 to forget what women put their feet through just to 98 00:04:10.599 --> 00:04:13.400 exist true. Imagine like what if we put on a 99 00:04:13.479 --> 00:04:15.080 kitten heel. We'd be like, this is the worst thing 100 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:16.160 I've ever experienced. 101 00:04:16.560 --> 00:04:20.839 Yeah, and she did a whole lot of dancing apparently, 102 00:04:20.920 --> 00:04:22.720 so you was like a dancer's toes. 103 00:04:23.120 --> 00:04:26.839 Yeah, a dancer's toes looks like a British smile. Yeah, 104 00:04:26.879 --> 00:04:28.639 it's gross. You're just like, I get that out of here. 105 00:04:28.639 --> 00:04:29.879 I didn't want to see that. I wanted to look 106 00:04:29.879 --> 00:04:32.360 at the rest of you. Christ fucking nasty. 107 00:04:32.680 --> 00:04:35.680 So jump ahead in time a little bit as this 108 00:04:35.759 --> 00:04:38.560 episode goes on. But first let's let's make our way 109 00:04:38.600 --> 00:04:42.319 to another monumental hair moment. It's a shame we're not 110 00:04:42.360 --> 00:04:45.000 doing video for this, yeah, because we could have both 111 00:04:45.040 --> 00:04:46.600 shaved our heads for this. 112 00:04:47.839 --> 00:04:50.519 I wasn't going to do that, but sure, yeah, you 113 00:04:50.560 --> 00:04:55.040 would look like a fucking oligarch I shift. I do 114 00:04:55.240 --> 00:04:57.959 I look like a legitimate skinhead when I shave my 115 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:00.279 head like I did once in like tenth grade, and 116 00:05:00.279 --> 00:05:03.879 everyone's like, you look like a Nazi, And I was like, 117 00:05:04.120 --> 00:05:07.720 I do have that higher learning energy coming off of me. 118 00:05:07.839 --> 00:05:08.399 It's not good. 119 00:05:08.439 --> 00:05:10.600 I could see it. It doesn't look like this face 120 00:05:10.680 --> 00:05:13.600 is already bad enough with like the hair, you know, 121 00:05:13.720

--> 00:05:15.600 with the hair, You're all right, this guy looks like 122 00:05:15.639 --> 00:05:17.040 a like a piece of shit cup. 123 00:05:17.199 --> 00:05:18.560 But once that goes to people. 124 00:05:18.480 --> 00:05:20.560 Be like, now he looks like a piece of shit coup, 125 00:05:20.680 --> 00:05:21.879 piece of shit X cop. 126 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:23.240 It's a Nazi now. 127 00:05:23.160 --> 00:05:25.879 Yeah, wearing like my black nylon jacket. 128 00:05:26.279 --> 00:05:27.000 So yeah. 129 00:05:27.040 --> 00:05:29.839 By nineteen ninety four, Andre Agassi he had a lot 130 00:05:29.879 --> 00:05:33.240 of good things happening in his life. Brookshields was his 131 00:05:33.279 --> 00:05:33.800 new girlfriend. 132 00:05:33.839 --> 00:05:35.120 I would say, that's a good thing to have in 133 00:05:35.120 --> 00:05:35.439 your life. 134 00:05:35.639 --> 00:05:37.600 For one thing, On top of that, he hired a 135 00:05:37.639 --> 00:05:40.319 new coach, guy named Brad Gilbert, who I think we've 136 00:05:40.360 --> 00:05:42.800 talked a little bit about. 137 00:05:42.639 --> 00:05:43.720 But not really. 138 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:45.360 He's the rain maker. 139 00:05:45.839 --> 00:05:50.199 Yeah, Brad Gilbert is a legend in tennis because he 140 00:05:50.439 --> 00:05:52.920 wins people US Opens. 141 00:05:52.879 --> 00:05:54.399 Stuffed animals at the Carnival. 142 00:05:55.279 --> 00:05:58.839 He was Andy Roddick's coach in two thousand and three 143 00:05:59.199 --> 00:06:03.480 when Andy won the US Open. Last American male to 144 00:06:03.600 --> 00:06:04.759 win the US Open. 145 00:06:05.160 --> 00:06:07.839 How many American females have done it since? It's been 146 00:06:08.160 --> 00:06:11.639 just a whole string of American victories in the female division. Yeah. 147 00:06:11.839 --> 00:06:15.319 Yeah, And people probably assume we're just talking about Venus 148 00:06:15.319 --> 00:06:16.079 and Serena, but. 149 00:06:16.040 --> 00:06:20.759 It's like, no, win a string, a whole bunch. 150 00:06:21.240 --> 00:06:26.279 And he is Coco Goff's coach right now. Coco Goff, 151 00:06:26.399 --> 00:06:30.279 immediately after hiring him, won three tournaments in a row. 152 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:34.199 Those were bowling tournaments. Yeah, he is pinball good. 153 00:06:35.279 --> 00:06:38.759 She won three tournaments in a row, including the US Open, 154 00:06:39.040 --> 00:06:43.839 which was her first major win. And he was Andre 155 00:06:43.920 --> 00:06:47.600 Agassi's coach going into the nineteen ninety four US Open. 156 00:06:47.839 --> 00:06:48.199 I believe you. 157 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:50.079 I'm gonna need sources cited on this one. 158 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:52.600 Well, Hey, I'm actually glad you brought that up because 159 00:06:52.680 --> 00:06:55.759 I'm gonna mention this a few different times throughout this episode, 160 00:06:55.800 --> 00:06:57.720 but a lot of this, pretty much all of it 161 00:06:57.759 --> 00:07:01.199 is coming from andre Agassi's book, which is called Open. 162 00:07:02.639 --> 00:07:07.040 It's called Open, and I cannot recommend it enough. Like 163 00:07:07.399 --> 00:07:10.759 Brad Gilbert is just one of the things we are 164 00:07:11.399 --> 00:07:16.439 highly glossing over in our telling of the andre Agassy story, 165 00:07:16.480 --> 00:07:20.800 but there are pages and pages and pages about pages 166 00:07:20.839 --> 00:07:25.279 Brad Gilbert and one of the things that I especially 167 00:07:25.319 --> 00:07:29.120 loved there's a section about the first time they met 168 00:07:29.160 --> 00:07:33.279 to discuss talking about Brad Gilbert being his coach, and 169 00:07:33.560 --> 00:07:36.839 they were like, just be honest, like be brutally honest 170 00:07:37.079 --> 00:07:40.879 about andre Agassy as a player, and he was like, yeah, 171 00:07:41.240 --> 00:07:44.920 you're sure about that, and just talked for like an 172 00:07:44.959 --> 00:07:50.120 hour about everything andre Agassy did wrong, and they were like, 173 00:07:50.319 --> 00:07:52.199 you're hired perfect and it's. 174 00:07:52.199 --> 00:07:55.079 It's like when George got the promotion at the Yankees 175 00:07:55.120 --> 00:07:57.600 when he got hired for the Yankees, and Seinfeld. 176 00:07:57.279 --> 00:08:00.920 A little bit yeah, and uh yeah, it's all really interesting. 177 00:08:00.959 --> 00:08:02.839 We were leaving a lot of meat on the bones 178 00:08:03.079 --> 00:08:05.079 for people who want to go read this. 179 00:08:04.959 --> 00:08:06.480 Book, boning a lot of meat. 180 00:08:06.800 --> 00:08:13.279 Yeah, whoa high five. Yes, right, that was an audible 181 00:08:13.319 --> 00:08:13.800 high five. 182 00:08:14.160 --> 00:08:17.079 And at this point in history, andre Agassy was ranked 183 00:08:17.079 --> 00:08:20.000 twentieth in the world, which it's good. 184 00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:22.040 Same, like I've done that. 185 00:08:22.160 --> 00:08:25.279 Yeah, if you're the twentieth best pretty much anything in 186 00:08:25.319 --> 00:08:27.240 the world, you're doing alright. 187 00:08:27.519 --> 00:08:30.480 But at the time, the twentieth best serial killer in 188 00:08:30.480 --> 00:08:32.639 the world, you're still you're in the papers. 189 00:08:32.720 --> 00:08:35.480 Yeah, among serial killers are still doing great. So at 190 00:08:35.519 --> 00:08:38.440 the time, that meant andre Agassy had to go into 191 00:08:38.519 --> 00:08:42.080 the US Open as an unseated player, like. 192 00:08:42.039 --> 00:08:43.240 A red shirt freshman. 193 00:08:43.679 --> 00:08:46.480 Yeah, for people who don't know what that means. Seeding 194 00:08:46.559 --> 00:08:48.639 is the thing they do in tournaments to keep like 195 00:08:48.759 --> 00:08:52.080 all the best players from playing each other right away 196 00:08:52.120 --> 00:08:55.039 in the early rounds and like knocking each other out, 197 00:08:55.320 --> 00:08:59.120 So they seed the players

so that doesn't happen. 198 00:08:59.200 --> 00:09:01.639 Yeah, like you see it a lot in like the 199 00:09:01.919 --> 00:09:03.840 I guess the best way to do is like march madness. 200 00:09:03.919 --> 00:09:06.399 If you guys are knowing, they'll put the highest versus 201 00:09:06.440 --> 00:09:08.840 the lowest rank because eventually they're like, well, not only 202 00:09:08.879 --> 00:09:11.360 do we want to make it interesting, but also yeah, 203 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:12.679 this would be how it would work. 204 00:09:12.919 --> 00:09:17.720 Like, Yeah, there's I think four regions in the NCAA tournament, 205 00:09:17.840 --> 00:09:23.360 and each region has four top seeds and they do 206 00:09:23.399 --> 00:09:25.519 not ever play each other in the first round. 207 00:09:25.799 --> 00:09:26.960 It's madness at them. 208 00:09:27.000 --> 00:09:30.440 It is absolute madness. March madness is kind of madness. 209 00:09:30.679 --> 00:09:34.399 So he goes into the nineteen ninety four US Open unseated, 210 00:09:34.679 --> 00:09:37.679 which had he been going into the US Open now 211 00:09:37.759 --> 00:09:40.559 he would be seated. Over the years, it's expanded from 212 00:09:40.840 --> 00:09:43.919 an eight seed tournament to sixteen, which is what it 213 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:46.279 was that year, to thirty two. 214 00:09:46.519 --> 00:09:47.759 You know who else was unseated? 215 00:09:48.200 --> 00:09:53.000 Brookshields. Yeah, you know who else? Jesus? Jesus was unseated? 216 00:09:53.159 --> 00:09:54.320 Right is the season. 217 00:09:54.039 --> 00:09:58.080 Atam And yeah, it expanded to thirty two seeds in 218 00:09:58.080 --> 00:10:02.120 two thousand and one. Never forget that's that's the arguably 219 00:10:02.159 --> 00:10:04.480 the most important thing that happened in New York. 220 00:10:04.279 --> 00:10:07.480 In two thousand and one. In the blueprint, did they 221 00:10:07.519 --> 00:10:08.720 still do the USO? 222 00:10:08.799 --> 00:10:12.039 Oh yeah, it ends like early September, So I bet 223 00:10:12.080 --> 00:10:13.600 they just got it in under the wire. 224 00:10:14.559 --> 00:10:19.080 I hope people weren't on the plane. Oh, so we've 225 00:10:19.120 --> 00:10:22.840 decided to extend our stay until Tuesday. Oh no, we 226 00:10:23.120 --> 00:10:24.320 fly back to LA. 227 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:27.759 And so what's really important about this is going into 228 00:10:27.759 --> 00:10:31.879 the nineteen ninety four US Open, no unseated player had 229 00:10:31.879 --> 00:10:35.440 ever won it. Ever, no unseated male player at least, 230 00:10:35.759 --> 00:10:40.679 and to this day, only one unseated male player has 231 00:10:40.679 --> 00:10:44.120 ever won it, Jeff Mae Andre Agassy in nineteen ninety four. 232 00:10:44.639 --> 00:10:46.919 I see where you're going with this. Yeah, okay, I 233 00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:50.559 think I'm getting there. Eventually, I'll get there. He went in. 234 00:10:50.919 --> 00:10:55.080

And for the record, two women have done it too, American. 235 00:10:55.080 --> 00:10:57.519 Both of those women Andrea Agassy. 236 00:10:57.799 --> 00:11:00.919 Actually I don't know if they're both American, but Kim 237 00:11:01.039 --> 00:11:04.000 Kleisters did it in two thousand. 238 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:06.720 And nine, and I don't know if she's Kim Cleister's 239 00:11:06.720 --> 00:11:08.639 has that J in the middle of in front of 240 00:11:08.679 --> 00:11:11.000 an S N A T. So like that's I'm gonna 241 00:11:11.320 --> 00:11:16.840 cast dispersions. She might not officially be one of us, right, Adam, 242 00:11:17.120 --> 00:11:19.080 I'm being a xenophobic by the way, in case you 243 00:11:19.080 --> 00:11:20.480 guys sure, I don't. 244 00:11:20.320 --> 00:11:22.440 Know if you guys picked up that bit, and if 245 00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:25.759 you want to take this opportunity to be racist. Also, 246 00:11:25.840 --> 00:11:28.720 Sloan Stevens won it in twenty seventeen. 247 00:11:28.759 --> 00:11:30.080 That is an American ass name. 248 00:11:30.799 --> 00:11:35.679 Yeah and so yeah, he made history winning that US Open. 249 00:11:35.799 --> 00:11:37.720 He beat Michael Stitch in the final. 250 00:11:37.960 --> 00:11:39.879 It's funny because it's like we made history. It's like, well, 251 00:11:39.919 --> 00:11:42.039 we you know, we kind of knew he was capable 252 00:11:42.080 --> 00:11:43.600 to do it. You know. It's like it's almost like 253 00:11:43.679 --> 00:11:46.919 he's like setting himself up to have an easy, breezy trip. 254 00:11:47.000 --> 00:11:49.120 I mean he's not obviously, he's not doing that, but 255 00:11:49.200 --> 00:11:51.320 like when you see that, you're like, hmmm, it's like 256 00:11:51.320 --> 00:11:53.840 when people when when teams will throw a game so 257 00:11:53.840 --> 00:11:56.519 they can get a better lotto pick, yeah, than the draft. 258 00:11:56.840 --> 00:12:00.320 He does admit to throwing some matches in this, but I. 259 00:12:00.399 --> 00:12:02.639 Usually had a spite, right, yeah, just because he like 260 00:12:02.960 --> 00:12:05.519 didn't want to win, just because he's cool, Like he. 261 00:12:05.480 --> 00:12:07.360 Didn't want to keep playing in that tournament. 262 00:12:07.440 --> 00:12:08.639 So he's like fuck it. 263 00:12:08.919 --> 00:12:13.039 And what's funny is he actually brings this up. He 264 00:12:13.159 --> 00:12:16.080 was like, whenever I would do that, they would accuse 265 00:12:16.120 --> 00:12:19.279 me of not playing like hard enough or good enough. 266 00:12:19.600 --> 00:12:22.919 And then whenever I would like play really hard and lose, 267 00:12:23.000 --> 00:12:26.320 they'd accuse me of like throwing the match. So weird, 268 00:12:26.600 --> 00:12:31.799 so weird. He flipped him and so script he He 269 00:12:31.840 --> 00:12:35.120 beats Michael Stitch in the nineteen ninety four US Open final. 270 00:12:35.200 --> 00:12:36.480 With his trophy after he won. 271 00:12:36.720 --> 00:12:40.639 I do have an of fifty Michael Stitch card really 272 00:12:40.759 --> 00:12:45.200 for sale on eBay PSA ten, population one go, uh. 273 00:12:44.879 --> 00:12:46.960 Go look it up, everybody. I mean, we should be 274 00:12:47.039 --> 00:12:49.919 there right now. It's yeah, why should be? 275 00:12:50.159 --> 00:12:52.639 Why has no one bought my Michael Stitch card? 276 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:53.159 Walk? 277 00:12:53.399 --> 00:12:58.480 Don't run to Adam's eBay store, you know, Michael Stitch getting. 278 00:12:58.159 --> 00:12:59.679 It on time shipping for the holidays. 279 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:05.200 And it's around this time that even more history is 280 00:13:05.279 --> 00:13:10.399 made because brook Shields initiates a very tough conversation with 281 00:13:10.440 --> 00:13:13.080 andre Agassi when she sits him down and says, look, 282 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:15.000 bub you gotta shave your fucking head. 283 00:13:15.240 --> 00:13:16.159 This is madness. 284 00:13:16.399 --> 00:13:18.519 I feel like he could have pulled off nobody knowing 285 00:13:18.559 --> 00:13:20.279 that he was wearing a wig if he didn't write 286 00:13:20.320 --> 00:13:20.759 this book. 287 00:13:21.360 --> 00:13:25.519 Yes, but and I feel like he could have probably 288 00:13:25.639 --> 00:13:28.879 just saved that for the end of his career and 289 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:33.679 just like final match, just center court waving goodbye to 290 00:13:33.679 --> 00:13:34.440 everyone and be. 291 00:13:34.360 --> 00:13:37.039 Like, ah, surprise takes and dons it like it's a 292 00:13:37.159 --> 00:13:40.120 like it's a hat at a nice lady that would 293 00:13:40.159 --> 00:13:46.440 have been adopts He adopts his wig. Yeah. No, It 294 00:13:46.519 --> 00:13:49.480 is interesting though, because like She's like, yeah, just fucking 295 00:13:49.559 --> 00:13:52.440 do it, bro and and and then it's good. 296 00:13:52.440 --> 00:13:54.279 That's gonna be a sensation, isn't it. 297 00:13:54.519 --> 00:13:56.679 Well, they make a big deal of it. They have 298 00:13:56.759 --> 00:14:00.399 a party at Brooks Shield's house. They invite friends to 299 00:14:00.559 --> 00:14:02.320 all come watch him shave his head. 300 00:14:02.440 --> 00:14:03.360 I wouldn't have done that. 301 00:14:03.960 --> 00:14:06.759 Yeah, I wouldn't have done that part. People are gonna 302 00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:10.559 see the weave part. People were like, yeah, so like 303 00:14:10.600 --> 00:14:13.960 he had a lot of braids in his inner hair. Yeah, 304 00:14:14.000 --> 00:14:14.639 he apparently. 305 00:14:14.799 --> 00:14:17.519 Yeah, he had a weave annie and a ponytail, and 306 00:14:17.559 --> 00:14:20.360 the ponytail was real, so he just had that, Like he. 307 00:14:20.360 --> 00:14:23.240 Should have kept the ponytail. Yeah, he should have shaved 308 00:14:23.279 --> 00:14:25.480 his head but kept the ponytail. Looking like a monk. 309 00:14:25.919 -->

00:14:29.639 Yeah, I imagine he probably looked a lot like what 310 00:14:29.720 --> 00:14:32.519 Hulk Hogan would look like if he grew a ponytail, 311 00:14:33.480 --> 00:14:35.279 just like bald on top. 312 00:14:35.240 --> 00:14:41.120 Fucking in little straw hair, silken hair. And it's interesting. 313 00:14:41.159 --> 00:14:44.960 He had a friend who worked in advertising around this time, 314 00:14:45.000 --> 00:14:48.240 who used to be a pastor and chastratizing him. After 315 00:14:48.279 --> 00:14:50.559 he met Andre Agassi. He was like, I guess I'm 316 00:14:50.559 --> 00:14:52.480 gonna go try and be rich. Now I have a 317 00:14:52.559 --> 00:14:55.919 rich friend and like quit being a pastor and got into. 318 00:14:55.639 --> 00:14:58.200 Like andre pulled him away from God and sent him 319 00:14:58.240 --> 00:15:03.879 towards creed. He went into advertising. That's greed, that's one 320 00:15:03.879 --> 00:15:07.720 of the Big seven, like writing jingles and shit meeting 321 00:15:07.799 --> 00:15:13.679 Andre Agassy turned this man into an unfaithful man, like 322 00:15:14.759 --> 00:15:19.080 Andrea Agassy killed God in this man's eyes. And this guy. 323 00:15:18.840 --> 00:15:20.840 Pulls him aside at one point and is like, look, 324 00:15:21.120 --> 00:15:24.320 I'm getting into a bunch of advertising. I got I 325 00:15:24.360 --> 00:15:27.039 know a bunch of people in the corporate advertising world. 326 00:15:27.080 --> 00:15:30.399 And what they're telling me is you are your hair 327 00:15:30.759 --> 00:15:33.480 and if you ever cut your hair, sponsors are going 328 00:15:33.519 --> 00:15:37.480 to go away too. And this was like completely independent 329 00:15:37.679 --> 00:15:40.960 of Andrea Agassy saying he was gonna cut his hair. 330 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:43.919 He just had someone in his ear at the same 331 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:45.320 time being like. 332 00:15:48.600 --> 00:15:53.840 There's no God, you better not you better not do 333 00:15:53.919 --> 00:15:56.639 it because the Devil's the only thing that's real. 334 00:15:58.360 --> 00:16:03.600 And so this wasn't nothing. But also like he had 335 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:07.559 eighties hair, like yeah, he needs was eighties hair, Like 336 00:16:07.639 --> 00:16:12.759 he had rat hair, he had Cinderella hair, So like, yeah, man, 337 00:16:12.879 --> 00:16:15.559 shave it stone cold. Andrea Agassy, man. 338 00:16:15.639 --> 00:16:17.720 Yeah, it's getting them to be the point where he's 339 00:16:17.759 --> 00:16:20.120 got to start like wearing flannels and shit like this 340 00:16:20.200 --> 00:16:21.039 is the grunge ac. 341 00:16:21.080 --> 00:16:21.919 Really grunge it out. 342 00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:26.360 Yeah, I'm surprised he didn't. I'm surprised his waist never 343 00:16:26.399 --> 00:16:29.039 took the court in just like a sleeveless flannel. 344 00:16:29.120 --> 00:16:31.120 What if he had a flannel tight around his neck 345 00:16:31.279 --> 00:16:34.759 like those country club fuckers do with sweaters, that would 346 00:16:34.759 --> 00:16:38.879 be amazing and so looking. Stickers all over his rackets 347 00:16:38.879 --> 00:16:39.360 and stuff. 348 00:16:39.679 --> 00:16:42.679 This is a quote from Andrea Agassy about cutting his hair. 349 00:16:42.759 --> 00:16:46.559 It is quintessential Andrea Agassy dramatic. My hair piece was 350 00:16:46.559 --> 00:16:49.799 a shekel in my natural hair, grown to absurd lengths, 351 00:16:49.879 --> 00:16:53.799 dyed three different colors, was a weight as well, holding 352 00:16:53.879 --> 00:16:57.440 me down. It seems so trivial hair, but hair has 353 00:16:57.480 --> 00:17:00.879 been the crux of my public image and myself in image, 354 00:17:01.039 --> 00:17:02.120 and it's been a sham. 355 00:17:02.600 --> 00:17:05.599 You know what's funny? You have you ever seen the Jim. 356 00:17:05.519 --> 00:17:09.680 Jefferies bit about hair, not about how basically like it's 357 00:17:09.759 --> 00:17:12.960 the one thing that you can't help that everyone's like, yeah, 358 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:16.039 fuck these people. Yeah, Like when people lose hair and 359 00:17:16.079 --> 00:17:17.799 they it's like, oh yeah, we can make fun of 360 00:17:17.839 --> 00:17:20.759 them for that, And it's like, how like, why is 361 00:17:20.799 --> 00:17:21.359 that Okay? 362 00:17:21.759 --> 00:17:26.000 Like, yeah, it's that body shaming. It's got a good point. Yeah, 363 00:17:26.079 --> 00:17:28.599 I mean we still body shame people all the time. 364 00:17:28.559 --> 00:17:30.279 I exclusively do. You just can't. 365 00:17:30.279 --> 00:17:32.680 You can't do it to people that the internet likes. 366 00:17:33.000 --> 00:17:34.240 No, no, no, no like. 367 00:17:34.440 --> 00:17:37.119 But if it's someone the Internet doesn't like, fucking body 368 00:17:37.119 --> 00:17:38.200 shame all day, you can't. 369 00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:39.640 Want to shame the shit out of them. Take that Trump, 370 00:17:39.680 --> 00:17:42.559 you look stupid and dumpy. Hell yeah, fat ass, you 371 00:17:42.640 --> 00:17:45.680 fat piece of shit, old motherfucker. We're never gonna be old. 372 00:17:45.799 --> 00:17:50.440 Nice hair, Yeah, fuck you, orange bitch. But also fuck Toronto. 373 00:17:50.480 --> 00:17:54.839 Fuck obviously it's fat, orange hairless ass. That's stupid ass hair. 374 00:17:55.359 --> 00:17:57.799 Kick as diaperugh. 375 00:17:57.160 --> 00:18:01.960 Fucking he'd explode into diet coke, diet coke and fucking 376 00:18:02.119 --> 00:18:06.160 big macs. A asshole, So go for a big mac 377 00:18:06.240 --> 00:18:08.079 right now though. Oh I hate a big mac, but 378 00:18:08.519 --> 00:18:11.960 I would eat a mcribo et a McRib so related 379 00:18:12.079 --> 00:18:12.279 or not. 380 00:18:12.680 --> 00:18:16.559 After cutting his hair, he immediately won another major in 381 00:18:16.599 --> 00:18:19.759 his first ever appearance at the Australian Open. 382

00:18:20.519 --> 00:18:23.640 He's fucking aerodynamic, man, He's darting through this the air. 383 00:18:24.039 --> 00:18:26.440 It did probably have to feel like a bit of 384 00:18:26.480 --> 00:18:27.400 a weight off. 385 00:18:27.319 --> 00:18:30.799 His chest, off his head, Yeah, off his head literally 386 00:18:31.480 --> 00:18:34.440 figuratively off his chest. But he also had shaved his chest. 387 00:18:34.480 --> 00:18:35.480 He had it. I don't know if you know this. 388 00:18:35.519 --> 00:18:39.839 He had a wig stitched into his head at him. Yeah, 389 00:18:39.880 --> 00:18:42.759 it's going to be a lot breezier. 390 00:18:43.119 --> 00:18:46.519 That's so crazy, But I mean just emotionally like he's 391 00:18:46.839 --> 00:18:49.640 He does talk in this book about how big of 392 00:18:50.079 --> 00:18:52.000 a part of his image that was. 393 00:18:52.079 --> 00:18:54.160 He looks like Nicole Kidman after she got her divorce, 394 00:18:54.240 --> 00:18:57.160 obviously that photo of her like he's like. So, I 395 00:18:57.160 --> 00:19:00.759 would listening to Freedom ninety by George Michael entire time 396 00:19:00.799 --> 00:19:01.400 to get pumped. 397 00:19:01.720 --> 00:19:04.319 Not only did he win the Australian Open first time 398 00:19:04.319 --> 00:19:06.720 he played, there beat Pete Sampress. 399 00:19:06.559 --> 00:19:07.559 With a folding chair. 400 00:19:07.680 --> 00:19:10.559 Yeah, we still got a Pete Samprass episode coming. Those 401 00:19:10.559 --> 00:19:15.799 two they I would watch a fucking twelve episode Buddy 402 00:19:15.799 --> 00:19:19.279 sitcom about Andre Agassy and Pete Sampras. 403 00:19:19.240 --> 00:19:20.400 Odd couple energy there. 404 00:19:20.920 --> 00:19:23.279 There's a part in this book where he takes Pete 405 00:19:23.319 --> 00:19:27.319 Sampress to see Brooks Shields performing in Greece on Broadway, 406 00:19:27.680 --> 00:19:31.160 and man, Pete Sampress just could not give less of 407 00:19:31.200 --> 00:19:31.720 a fuck. 408 00:19:32.160 --> 00:19:34.000 I don't think you can say on Broadway if it 409 00:19:34.039 --> 00:19:36.599 was in Greece, Adam, what do you mean? Isn't Broadway 410 00:19:37.039 --> 00:19:39.319 in Broadway in New York? What? 411 00:19:39.839 --> 00:19:41.240 Or is Broadway the name of the show. 412 00:19:41.519 --> 00:19:44.000 No, she was in a play, in a play, but 413 00:19:44.079 --> 00:19:46.880 not Broadway. I'm pretty sure it was Broadway. Maybe not, 414 00:19:47.079 --> 00:19:49.640 But why wouldn't you know? Isn't Broadway only in New York? 415 00:19:49.720 --> 00:19:51.799 Isn't that the name of the streets? She had a 416 00:19:51.799 --> 00:19:53.559 house in New York? Oh? Oh, because I thought you 417 00:19:53.599 --> 00:19:56.799 said it was, Oh, in Greece the play. Not Greece, 418 00:19:57.079 --> 00:20:00.599 you mother country fucker. You think I'm talking Great Leaves 419 00:20:00.640 --> 00:20:04.160 and yeah, oh yeah, Oh, these guys never travel. Nobody travels. 420 00:20:04.359 --> 00:20:07.920 That's a good point anyway. He was just in Australia. Yeah, 421 00:20:08.599 --> 00:20:12.640 on Broadway in New York the play Grease. We had 422 00:20:12.680 --> 00:20:14.799 a lot of names of places. There's a lot of 423 00:20:14.799 --> 00:20:15.640 homonyms here. 424 00:20:15.759 --> 00:20:18.519 We got there, though, We fucking got there. And yeah, 425 00:20:18.759 --> 00:20:21.680 that that's a whole fun story that we'll cover at 426 00:20:21.720 --> 00:20:22.200 some point. 427 00:20:22.400 --> 00:20:23.839 I also would be pissed if I had to go 428 00:20:23.839 --> 00:20:24.400 see Greece. 429 00:20:24.839 --> 00:20:27.799 Yeah, but the only time I've ever been to an 430 00:20:27.880 --> 00:20:29.400 actual play, I fucking loved it. 431 00:20:29.559 --> 00:20:32.839 Yeah, Avenue Q. Yeah. 432 00:20:32.960 --> 00:20:35.160 Yeah, after Gary Coleman died. 433 00:20:35.240 --> 00:20:37.920 So Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf? It was really good. 434 00:20:38.200 --> 00:20:40.400 Yeah, I think I saw some on like Field Trips. 435 00:20:40.519 --> 00:20:42.240 I'm not gonna lie. I've seen some good plays. But 436 00:20:42.400 --> 00:20:44.640 Greece I was. I'm specifically saying, like, if I had 437 00:20:44.640 --> 00:20:46.599 to see Greece, I'd be like the fuck out of here. 438 00:20:46.839 --> 00:20:49.640 And I like the movie based on Jersey Boys, so 439 00:20:49.720 --> 00:20:52.920 I would probably like Jersey Like I was shocked by 440 00:20:52.920 --> 00:20:55.480 how much I like that movie, which is about Frankie 441 00:20:55.559 --> 00:20:57.160 Valley in the four seasons. 442 00:20:57.680 --> 00:21:02.519 Valley and the Boys Boys. 443 00:21:02.759 --> 00:21:08.359 Yeah, so again, I I don't want to get into 444 00:21:08.400 --> 00:21:11.279 all the details. But another thing to look for if 445 00:21:11.319 --> 00:21:14.839 you read this book is all of the stuff about 446 00:21:14.920 --> 00:21:18.440 him and his trainer, Gil, who we've mentioned, who is 447 00:21:18.480 --> 00:21:19.680 also his bodyguard. 448 00:21:20.000 --> 00:21:24.559 So Gil, when we look at Gil, that's not Gilbert, 449 00:21:24.759 --> 00:21:27.799 that's not Brad Gilbert, because that can get confusing too. 450 00:21:27.960 --> 00:21:31.200 There's a guy like Grease all over again. 451 00:21:31.319 --> 00:21:32.160 Jesus. 452 00:21:32.480 --> 00:21:35.160 Now, we brought up Gil on the last episode. He 453 00:21:35.319 --> 00:21:38.480 is the guy who when encountered with him, people would 454 00:21:38.519 --> 00:21:40.799 be like, is that your bodyguard? And he's like, no, 455 00:21:40.920 --> 00:21:43.640 he's my trainer. But also he's my bodyguard. 456 00:21:43.680 --> 00:21:44.480 But also come on. 457 00:21:44.880 --> 00:21:49.599 And they bring up a really fun detail in this 458 00:21:49.680 --> 00:21:53.720 book about how Andre Agassy and brook Shields would get 459 00:21:53.920 --> 00:21:57.680 hate

mail constantly and like threatening hate mail from like 460 00:21:57.799 --> 00:22:01.519 stalkers and shit because it was the fucking free wheeling nineties. 461 00:22:01.559 --> 00:22:03.920 All we could do is write letters. You couldn't go 462 00:22:04.000 --> 00:22:08.000 flame someone on the internet, so you're still writing letters. 463 00:22:08.079 --> 00:22:11.160 And Gil like they they eventually send these letters to 464 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:13.839 the FBI, and Gil starts working with the FBI to 465 00:22:13.960 --> 00:22:17.480 like try and track people down. But then when the 466 00:22:17.559 --> 00:22:22.000 FBI would like locate someone and like conclusively confirm that 467 00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:25.359 that's where this letter came from, Gil would like sneak 468 00:22:25.400 --> 00:22:27.519 away and go to that person's house. 469 00:22:27.920 --> 00:22:28.359 Interesting. 470 00:22:28.440 --> 00:22:30.200 Interesting, Hey, I'm gonna be gone for two days. 471 00:22:30.599 --> 00:22:35.000 Yeah, And he like fucking the end of Jay and 472 00:22:35.119 --> 00:22:37.839 Silent Bob, just going door to door being like, ey, 473 00:22:38.079 --> 00:22:39.359 remember writing this letter. 474 00:22:39.359 --> 00:22:42.079 To Stroke nine playing in the background, how many people 475 00:22:42.119 --> 00:22:45.480 want to kick some ass? Which I love that. That's great. 476 00:22:45.519 --> 00:22:48.119 It's my favorite. It's my favorite scene in any movie ever. 477 00:22:48.319 --> 00:22:51.279 Is the credits. Yeah, the ending credits scene. 478 00:22:51.039 --> 00:22:55.160 Of and so At like the beginning of nineteen ninety five, 479 00:22:55.200 --> 00:22:58.079 he and Gil go through this like boot camp type 480 00:22:58.160 --> 00:23:01.640 thing where Gil comes up with this crazy the training regimen. 481 00:23:01.720 --> 00:23:06.279 He builds him custom weight machines. Hell yeah, because there's 482 00:23:06.440 --> 00:23:09.279 like certain weights andre I guess he couldn't do because 483 00:23:09.319 --> 00:23:11.400 of his back and his neck and his pussy and 484 00:23:11.440 --> 00:23:11.720 his crack. 485 00:23:11.799 --> 00:23:12.839 Yeah, of course obviously. 486 00:23:13.000 --> 00:23:16.799 Yeah, and uh, Gil like built him machines that allowed 487 00:23:16.880 --> 00:23:21.720 him to still do like lat workouts without injuring his back. 488 00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:25.359 He came up with all these like custom drinks, with 489 00:23:25.440 --> 00:23:26.839 like all these weird electrics. 490 00:23:26.880 --> 00:23:28.039 Like what's Gill doing? 491 00:23:28.160 --> 00:23:32.319 Now? This man could save us? Probably Gil is like 492 00:23:32.400 --> 00:23:36.000 that one guy you know where you're like, He's just like, oh, yeah, 493 00:23:36.039 --> 00:23:38.599 you got you're going to fix your engine real quick. 494 00:23:38.599 --> 00:23:40.799 I hear something rattling in there. I'll look at that. 495 00:23:41.119 --> 00:23:43.559 It's like where'd you learn this? It's like helicopter pilot school. 496 00:23:43.599 --> 00:23:45.240 And you're like, wait, you know how to do that too? 497 00:23:45.680 --> 00:23:46.960 And he's like, well that was on my way of 498 00:23:46.960 --> 00:23:49.519 becoming a personal trainer, And you're like, what can't you do? 499 00:23:50.000 --> 00:23:50.480 Not much? 500 00:23:50.680 --> 00:23:53.400 Yeah, it's like Steven Sigall energy a little bit, but 501 00:23:53.480 --> 00:23:56.759 you know real yeah, yeah it's nothing your pants while 502 00:23:56.759 --> 00:24:00.279 you're getting choked out. So One of the things they 503 00:24:00.279 --> 00:24:04.160 bring up during all the stuff about their workout routines 504 00:24:04.440 --> 00:24:08.319 is how he would make Andrea Agacy eat every twenty 505 00:24:08.359 --> 00:24:10.759 minutes while weight training, which. 506 00:24:10.880 --> 00:24:11.640 Here's a quote. 507 00:24:11.759 --> 00:24:13.920 Every time I turn around, he's shoving a bowl of 508 00:24:14.000 --> 00:24:17.519 high protein oatmeal at me, or a bacon sandwich or 509 00:24:17.559 --> 00:24:20.400 a bagel with peanut butter and honey end quote. 510 00:24:20.400 --> 00:24:21.400 That sounds all right. 511 00:24:21.359 --> 00:24:22.640 That sounds pretty decent. 512 00:24:22.720 --> 00:24:25.039 We should do that when we record. 513 00:24:25.359 --> 00:24:28.000 There's somebody that could be making bacon sandwiches and peanut 514 00:24:28.000 --> 00:24:28.880 butter and honey sand My. 515 00:24:28.920 --> 00:24:32.880 Wife right now could be hooking up a bacon sandwich, honestly, 516 00:24:33.319 --> 00:24:35.640 or me a little upset that that's not what's happening 517 00:24:35.720 --> 00:24:37.720 right now. What's your stance on a bacon set. I 518 00:24:37.759 --> 00:24:40.240 love a sand I love just a bunch of pieces 519 00:24:40.240 --> 00:24:42.119 of bacon between two pieces of white bread. 520 00:24:42.200 --> 00:24:42.720 Little mayo. 521 00:24:43.240 --> 00:24:46.359 Nope, oh that's all you want, nothing on it. I like, 522 00:24:46.440 --> 00:24:48.799 I mean, I honestly like I do like that. I 523 00:24:48.880 --> 00:24:51.400 like a BLT without the tea, So that's a pretty 524 00:24:51.799 --> 00:24:53.319 It seems like bacon sandwiches. 525 00:24:53.359 --> 00:24:56.720 You like a BLM, a bacon lettuce mayo right right, 526 00:24:56.799 --> 00:24:59.960 right right, And Black Lives yeah, which. 527 00:25:00.400 --> 00:25:05.200 They sure do. Official stance of the podcast is absolutely official. 528 00:25:05.240 --> 00:25:08.720 Bacon lettuce, mayonnaise and black lives both matter. See, I 529 00:25:08.720 --> 00:25:10.759 would puke if that happened to me while I was 530 00:25:10.799 --> 00:25:13.440 working out, though, like weight training, it seems extreme putting 531 00:25:13.480 --> 00:25:15.680 all that in my guts because like if I eat 532 00:25:15.720 --> 00:25:18.640 before boxing, even if

it's like five hours before, I'm like, oh, 533 00:25:18.680 --> 00:25:20.519 I'm gonna peak this up real quick. Yeah. 534 00:25:20.559 --> 00:25:24.279 Andrea Agassy is fascinating in that he would do shit 535 00:25:24.480 --> 00:25:26.799 like this and then just go to his house in 536 00:25:26.880 --> 00:25:29.160 Vegas and like Pound Vodko Night. 537 00:25:29.240 --> 00:25:31.319 Which it's like Rick Flair. 538 00:25:31.480 --> 00:25:34.240 Well, it's got a little bit of Maridonna feel to 539 00:25:34.359 --> 00:25:37.079 it where it's like, well, imagine if I wasn't doing 540 00:25:37.119 --> 00:25:41.839 that Maragassi. Yeah, but yeah, Gil puts him through some 541 00:25:41.920 --> 00:25:44.279 shit and it is interesting. 542 00:25:44.839 --> 00:25:45.640 Yeah. Gil. 543 00:25:45.839 --> 00:25:48.319 We don't talk about Gil as much as we could. 544 00:25:48.359 --> 00:25:51.079 No on this we only have six episodes. Gil is 545 00:25:51.400 --> 00:25:53.440 Gil should be episode seven through nine. 546 00:25:53.519 --> 00:25:53.720 Yeah. 547 00:25:53.720 --> 00:25:57.359 He is a fascinating figure in the Andrea Agassi. 548 00:25:57.559 --> 00:25:59.079 Yeah. And the man knows how to throw a bacon 549 00:25:59.119 --> 00:26:00.119 sandwich together from. 550 00:26:00.079 --> 00:26:03.880 What I hear, and was like almost kind of like 551 00:26:03.920 --> 00:26:07.480 a father figure to Andre Agassy. Also like he was 552 00:26:07.599 --> 00:26:11.759 just a good dude, and those two just genuinely love 553 00:26:11.799 --> 00:26:14.720 each other and it's so fun to read about. 554 00:26:15.000 --> 00:26:16.599 I need somebody to be like, hey man, do you 555 00:26:16.599 --> 00:26:19.119 need some high protein oatmeal or a peanut butter and 556 00:26:19.160 --> 00:26:22.920 honey bagel. Yeah, it would be nice, genuinely nice if 557 00:26:22.920 --> 00:26:25.480 somebody would do that. Hey man, I just wanted to 558 00:26:25.519 --> 00:26:27.519 make sure that you got as ripped as you could. 559 00:26:27.599 --> 00:26:30.319 So here, have a bacon sandwich. Yeah. 560 00:26:30.319 --> 00:26:35.039 And he apparently like micromanaged his eating, like down to the. 561 00:26:35.000 --> 00:26:37.480 Second better, even better. I don't have to think about it. 562 00:26:37.599 --> 00:26:39.599 Yeah. Yeah, there's just a guy that's like, it's time 563 00:26:39.599 --> 00:26:40.720 for your fucking oatmeal. 564 00:26:40.720 --> 00:26:44.359 I'd be like, That's always been one of my preferred apocalypses, 565 00:26:44.839 --> 00:26:47.680 is the central computer that takes over and just tells 566 00:26:47.720 --> 00:26:49.680 us how to live our lives. Fuck, yeah, I trust 567 00:26:49.759 --> 00:26:51.680 you not the fuck it man. If I'm supposed to 568 00:26:51.720 --> 00:26:54.400 be a janitor, fine, fine. 569 00:26:54.240 --> 00:26:55.079 Yeah you wouldn't. 570 00:26:55.319 --> 00:26:58.400 The algorithm can't fuck up done figuring it out. I 571 00:26:58.400 -->

00:27:01.359 want the I want the bacon sandwich algorithm. Yeah, that's 572 00:27:01.359 --> 00:27:04.240 the one. I want bacon sandwich time, Dave, God, I 573 00:27:04.359 --> 00:27:05.440 want a bacon sandwich. 574 00:27:06.039 --> 00:27:08.119 There's nowhere we can go for that either. 575 00:27:08.279 --> 00:27:09.759 Now not wrapping downstairs. 576 00:27:09.799 --> 00:27:11.920 I have in theory we could do that. 577 00:27:12.000 --> 00:27:12.720 Yeah, we could do that. 578 00:27:12.960 --> 00:27:14.440 Send a text real quick. 579 00:27:14.920 --> 00:27:16.720 We would get a bacon sandwich ready for us by 580 00:27:16.759 --> 00:27:18.559 the time we're done recording, if I'm being honest. 581 00:27:19.160 --> 00:27:22.799 So back to Agassy's newly bald head. Not only does 582 00:27:22.799 --> 00:27:25.440 he win a bunch of tournaments after he shaves his head, 583 00:27:25.559 --> 00:27:28.519 he also knocks Pete Sampras out of the number one 584 00:27:28.519 --> 00:27:31.640 spot in the world tennis rankings. So from there his 585 00:27:31.720 --> 00:27:35.759 focus becomes winning all four majors. In nineteen ninety five, 586 00:27:36.079 --> 00:27:39.720 loses the French Open immediately. Oh yeah, so so much 587 00:27:39.799 --> 00:27:40.400 for that goal. 588 00:27:40.640 --> 00:27:44.359 Sorry, Andre, excuse me a sweet de sole Andre. 589 00:27:44.799 --> 00:27:48.400 And what seems to really frustrate him even now and 590 00:27:48.640 --> 00:27:53.640 probably especially at the time, is he shaved his head 591 00:27:54.039 --> 00:27:57.720 because of that whole well images everything to Andre Agassy 592 00:27:57.960 --> 00:28:01.839 and he was really trying to escape that, and he figured, well, 593 00:28:01.880 --> 00:28:05.680 if I shaved my head, then people aren't gonna like 594 00:28:06.000 --> 00:28:07.359 did he image? 595 00:28:07.400 --> 00:28:09.759 Did he? Or is that for the book? Because no, 596 00:28:09.839 --> 00:28:11.799 he did, Like you, you can't be like, well, I 597 00:28:11.839 --> 00:28:14.079 was living under a microscope, so I decided to do 598 00:28:14.160 --> 00:28:16.720 this wild thing. And then I'd no longer be under 599 00:28:16.720 --> 00:28:20.279 the microscope. No, Andre, that's you didn't think that. 600 00:28:20.599 --> 00:28:24.519 Well, not just that, but he doesn't just like shave 601 00:28:24.599 --> 00:28:26.680 his head. Like if you look at Andre Agasy, now 602 00:28:26.880 --> 00:28:29.400 he's just a dude with a bald head. Yeah, but 603 00:28:30.079 --> 00:28:32.400 when he shaved his head and went back to playing tennis, 604 00:28:32.720 --> 00:28:36.759 he would wear a bandana and a full goatee and 605 00:28:36.839 --> 00:28:38.480 a big ass gold ear ring. 606 00:28:38.599 --> 00:28:38.920 There you go. 607 00:28:39.119 --> 00:28:41.799 When that can't be uh. 608 00:28:41.200 --> 00:28:44.119 So people were like, oh, you're a pirate now. 609 00:28:44.119 --> 00:28:48.279 Yep, yes that's correct. Or a porn star. Those are 610 00:28:48.319 --> 00:28:49.680 the only two things you could be. 611 00:28:49.880 --> 00:28:54.119 Yeah, he looks like Brett Michaels post poison fame. Like 612 00:28:54.200 --> 00:28:56.400 he looks like reality TV Brett. 613 00:28:56.079 --> 00:29:00.920 Michaels, Reality TV Brett Michaels Prime Prime. Remember that show 614 00:29:01.279 --> 00:29:03.279 Rock of Love. Yeah, it was fun. 615 00:29:03.480 --> 00:29:04.119 Loved it. 616 00:29:04.119 --> 00:29:04.640 It was fun. 617 00:29:04.720 --> 00:29:05.880 I loved it. 618 00:29:05.960 --> 00:29:08.559 Remember when he almost died at the Tony Awards. 619 00:29:08.799 --> 00:29:10.440 Yeah, you got fucking clipped with. 620 00:29:10.400 --> 00:29:13.440 Something, got hit by a piece of like stage prop 621 00:29:13.519 --> 00:29:14.920 that came down too early. 622 00:29:15.160 --> 00:29:22.119 I remember how he would say diabetes, goodbys, diabetus. I 623 00:29:22.119 --> 00:29:25.359 remember after the Tony Awards thing happened, they put a 624 00:29:25.400 --> 00:29:27.559 picture of him in his hospital bed out and he 625 00:29:27.640 --> 00:29:28.920 still had the bandana on. 626 00:29:29.319 --> 00:29:33.200 It's like, we know, medical bandana, Yeah, we know what's 627 00:29:33.200 --> 00:29:37.640 going on under there. Got some agasy happening underneath that bandana. 628 00:29:37.720 --> 00:29:41.480 And so yeah, his his look goes to bandana, goatee, 629 00:29:41.519 --> 00:29:44.519 huge goldier ring. So now everyone decides it his pirate. 630 00:29:44.759 --> 00:29:48.960 He shows up ergsy. He shows up at Wimbledon in 631 00:29:49.079 --> 00:29:54.880 nineteen ninety five and Nike is handing out agasy kits. Nike, well, 632 00:29:54.920 --> 00:29:56.400 I mean, to be fair, they're like, we got to 633 00:29:56.440 --> 00:29:59.440 do something, like they're They're like, we're taking a fucking 634 00:29:59.519 --> 00:30:02.480 bath on this dude if we don't do something about this. 635 00:30:03.359 --> 00:30:12.000 They The agacy kits include adhesive sideburns, fake mustaches, and bandanas. 636 00:30:12.480 --> 00:30:17.000 And he loses to Boris Becker in the semifinals at Wimbledon, 637 00:30:17.240 --> 00:30:20.799 but a really interesting thing happens in Boris Becker's postmatch 638 00:30:20.880 --> 00:30:25.680 press conference. He just shits all over Andrea Agassy. Hell yeah, 639 00:30:25.720 --> 00:30:29.119 and he's like, this dude does not deserve the fucking 640 00:30:29.200 --> 00:30:33.519 attention that he's getting, and Tennis just props him up 641 00:30:33.759 --> 00:30:38.480 because he's good for ratings. And Brad Gilbert learns about 642 00:30:38.759 --> 00:30:43.960 this first and he brings it to Andrea Agassy's attention, 643 00:30:44.279 --> 00:30:46.839 and he's like, look, you know what we gotta do 644 00:30:47.119 --> 00:30:50.880 fuck for this kil this guy. Yeah, and he and 645 00:30:50.960 --> 00:30:54.000 Brad Gilbert both

Brad Gilbert is the one who gets 646 00:30:54.000 --> 00:30:57.759 Andre Agassy fired up about it, and they decide that 647 00:30:57.960 --> 00:31:01.880 the summer of nineteen ninety five be the Summer of Revenge, 648 00:31:02.279 --> 00:31:03.079 which I like. 649 00:31:03.079 --> 00:31:05.119 That same that was my summer of ninety five two. 650 00:31:05.240 --> 00:31:08.400 So you know who else had that idea? Alanis, Oh, sure, 651 00:31:08.559 --> 00:31:10.160 that's why she put out Jagged Little Pill. 652 00:31:10.599 --> 00:31:14.160 So he goes out during the Summer of Revenge, wins 653 00:31:14.200 --> 00:31:18.359 four tournaments in a row, including one in DC, which 654 00:31:18.480 --> 00:31:21.240 this is another fascinating story in the book. He plays 655 00:31:21.240 --> 00:31:24.759 Stefan Edbergh and it's so hot. The two of them 656 00:31:24.920 --> 00:31:30.599 both start like vomiting and hallucinating, and neither of them 657 00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:33.519 is like, we should just like quit until tomorrow. Right, 658 00:31:33.599 --> 00:31:36.880 It's like unspeakably hot. They're just like so out of 659 00:31:36.920 --> 00:31:41.240 their minds. They're like, we keep playing. Oh my god, 660 00:31:41.319 --> 00:31:44.359 that's awesome. Yeah, it's the heart of a Champion right there. 661 00:31:44.640 --> 00:31:49.599 And Agasy wins that skipping skipping beats Heart of a 662 00:31:49.680 --> 00:31:50.960 Champion there. 663 00:31:51.720 --> 00:31:56.160 And he's just out there reckon motherfuckers. In nineteen ninety five, 664 00:31:56.559 --> 00:31:59.720 the media is all into his rivalry with Sampris because 665 00:31:59.720 --> 00:32:02.200 the two of them did a commercial together, which we'll 666 00:32:02.200 --> 00:32:04.039 talk about on a future that was like. 667 00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:06.599 The Magic and Larry a little bit of tennis but 668 00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:10.640 way less cool. Yeah, a little bit. Magic and Larry like, 669 00:32:10.680 --> 00:32:12.480 we don't really care about this rivalry the way you 670 00:32:12.480 --> 00:32:12.799 guys do. 671 00:32:12.839 --> 00:32:13.680 We're just gonna play. 672 00:32:13.920 --> 00:32:14.119 Yeah. 673 00:32:14.160 --> 00:32:16.880 It's like if the Magic and Larry rivalry was just 674 00:32:16.920 --> 00:32:21.279 like Larry and Larry, it's like two fucking Larry birds. 675 00:32:21.599 --> 00:32:24.279 I mean, I kind of yeah, that's fair. I mean, 676 00:32:24.599 --> 00:32:26.119 because Larry was the one that was like, I don't 677 00:32:26.160 --> 00:32:28.759 fucking care, leave me alone, and Magic's like a showman, 678 00:32:29.039 --> 00:32:31.119 so he was like, yeah, I'll play into this a 679 00:32:31.160 --> 00:32:33.200 little bit, and Larry's like, I'm just gonna fucking shoot 680 00:32:33.319 --> 00:32:36.720 three throws all day. Yeah. Yeah, so talk mad shit 681 00:32:36.839 --> 00:32:38.440 at everyone who comes near me. 682 00:32:39.079 --> 00:32:41.640 So,

even though the media is all wrapped up in 683 00:32:41.839 --> 00:32:46.680 Sampras versus Agasy, boris Becker only thing on andre Agassy's 684 00:32:46.720 --> 00:32:50.000 mind the nineteen ninety five US Open. The two of 685 00:32:50.039 --> 00:32:51.880 them end up on the same side of the draw, 686 00:32:52.119 --> 00:32:54.440 which means if Andre Agassy makes it all the way 687 00:32:54.480 --> 00:32:57.880 to the semifinals, and Boris Becker makes it to the semifinals. 688 00:32:58.079 --> 00:33:01.759 They will play each other and they do. It works out. 689 00:33:02.119 --> 00:33:04.759 They meet in the semifinals. He hates Boris Becker so 690 00:33:04.880 --> 00:33:09.119 much he pulls a security guard aside in the tunnel 691 00:33:09.319 --> 00:33:11.880 where the players go out onto the court, and he 692 00:33:11.920 --> 00:33:15.480 pulls the security guard aside and says, keep Boris Becker 693 00:33:15.519 --> 00:33:17.960 away from me. I don't want this fucking German in 694 00:33:18.039 --> 00:33:19.319 my sight right now. 695 00:33:19.359 --> 00:33:21.279 Which is a World War II energy right. 696 00:33:21.559 --> 00:33:25.400 Yeah, yeah, that's intense, and I. 697 00:33:25.400 --> 00:33:26.079 Love that German. 698 00:33:26.119 --> 00:33:30.400 It's like a pejorative here, Yeah, to keep this Serman 699 00:33:30.559 --> 00:33:31.519 out of my sight. 700 00:33:32.319 --> 00:33:37.200 And so this came up on the first episode a 701 00:33:37.200 --> 00:33:39.960 little bit when we talked about Nick Bulletieri. A bunch 702 00:33:40.240 --> 00:33:45.079 Nick Bulletsier, Yeah, real asshole fired Andre Agassi by way 703 00:33:45.119 --> 00:33:47.960 of a letter that he sent to Newsweek first or. 704 00:33:47.880 --> 00:33:51.279 Something militarian getting you a bacon sandwich. No, no, yeah, 705 00:33:51.319 --> 00:33:54.039 he's not bageld honey on it and peanut butter eating 706 00:33:54.039 --> 00:33:58.200 a bacon scene. Yeah, he's eating your bacon sandwich, sending 707 00:33:58.240 --> 00:34:00.039 a letter to the press about it. 708 00:34:00.319 --> 00:34:04.240 And by this point he had promised to never coach 709 00:34:04.319 --> 00:34:08.400 one of Agassy's rivals, and then immediately after they parted ways, 710 00:34:08.400 --> 00:34:09.960 he started coaching Boris Becker. 711 00:34:10.360 --> 00:34:13.599 That's stupid, Like, oh, you can't coach a rival. 712 00:34:13.599 --> 00:34:14.800 Well, was that so a man? 713 00:34:15.159 --> 00:34:18.000 Because yeah, if they get good enough, they are going 714 00:34:18.039 --> 00:34:20.280 to get a rival. That's the stupidest promise I've ever 715 00:34:20.320 --> 00:34:21.039 heard in my life. 716 00:34:21.239 --> 00:34:23.760 It is very silly. And he didn't keep that promise. 717 00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:26.840 No, that's an uncapable promise. What's it gonna do? 718 00:34:26.920 --> 00:34:28.239 Go work at a car wash? 719 00:34:28.440 --> 00:34:31.880 Like yeah, And so they meet it

the ninety five 720 00:34:32.039 --> 00:34:36.440 US Open. Bulletieri is Boris Becker's coach, so Andre Agassy's 721 00:34:36.480 --> 00:34:37.239 like fuck this. 722 00:34:37.519 --> 00:34:39.480 Yeah, He's like, I'm gonna nuke this fucking place. 723 00:34:39.519 --> 00:34:44.079 I'm gonna win this fucking match. And he's dominating at first, 724 00:34:44.400 --> 00:34:48.400 but then Boris Becker leans on some intel that he 725 00:34:48.440 --> 00:34:52.079 got from Nick Bulletieri, which was you are not going 726 00:34:52.519 --> 00:34:56.079 to break Andrea Agassy's game, but you can break his 727 00:34:56.159 --> 00:35:00.639 mind and if you do that, you might win. And 728 00:35:00.840 --> 00:35:03.119 he talks about it in the documentary. He's like, oh, 729 00:35:03.159 --> 00:35:05.239 I kind of regret that I should that was that 730 00:35:05.320 --> 00:35:06.159 was a little harsh? 731 00:35:06.280 --> 00:35:08.719 Do you It's like, I feel like you don't I 732 00:35:08.719 --> 00:35:11.000 don't think you do, because you're not apologizing for anything 733 00:35:11.000 --> 00:35:14.440 in the whole documentary. Yeah, yeah, very little. And uh. 734 00:35:14.480 --> 00:35:18.000 To accomplish that, Boris Becker starts like flirting with Brooke 735 00:35:18.079 --> 00:35:20.559 Shields in the middle of this match. He starts like 736 00:35:20.639 --> 00:35:24.920 blowing kisses to her. She's in Andre Agassi's player box, 737 00:35:25.280 --> 00:35:27.760 and Boris Becker's just like, I'm gonna hit on this 738 00:35:27.760 --> 00:35:30.719 guy's girlfriend in the midst of this match. And even 739 00:35:30.760 --> 00:35:34.199 in the book, Andrea Agassy's like, it worked, shoots your shot, 740 00:35:34.239 --> 00:35:37.039 bro Yeah, he was like it it worked. It really 741 00:35:37.079 --> 00:35:41.079 fucked with me. I was very rattled. But he does 742 00:35:41.400 --> 00:35:46.199 eventually win, and he beats Boris Becker. Summer of Revenge 743 00:35:46.239 --> 00:35:49.039 complete almost He did tear a bunch of cartilage in 744 00:35:49.079 --> 00:35:49.599 his ribs. 745 00:35:50.039 --> 00:35:53.800 Oh and can you intercostal carter cartilage? 746 00:35:54.159 --> 00:35:59.400 Can you imagine playing fucking tennis against Pete Samprass with 747 00:35:59.559 --> 00:36:01.400 torn cartilage. 748 00:36:00.800 --> 00:36:01.519 In your ribs? 749 00:36:01.599 --> 00:36:03.239 Yep, I can't. I've done that. 750 00:36:03.480 --> 00:36:06.719 Ah, that not great? Would that would be bad? 751 00:36:06.960 --> 00:36:07.199 I do. 752 00:36:07.320 --> 00:36:10.480 I wonder what he said to Boris afterwards. He's like, oh, yeah, 753 00:36:10.519 --> 00:36:12.480 so I don't deserve any that attention. Huh. 754 00:36:12.559 --> 00:36:14.159 After I just pushed your dick in the dirt. 755 00:36:14.639 --> 00:36:16.280 Yeah. Fuck yeah. 756 00:36:16.360 --> 00:36:19.840 I watched Rafael and the Doll win a match with 757 00:36:19.880 --> 00:36:23.960 like a torn

oblique muscle or like a torn ab muscle. 758 00:36:24.159 --> 00:36:28.199 I can't imagine playing tennis, and he like hasn't been back. 759 00:36:28.480 --> 00:36:30.679 But in that match he was like, I didn't want 760 00:36:30.679 --> 00:36:33.559 to like disrespect my opponent by quitting. It's like, oh, 761 00:36:33.639 --> 00:36:35.920 so you just beat him with like half your body working. 762 00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:36.239 Cool? 763 00:36:36.239 --> 00:36:37.760 Cool, Yeah, that's super respect. 764 00:36:37.840 --> 00:36:39.760 That's gonna make him feel He's like so much. 765 00:36:39.800 --> 00:36:43.360 I didn't want to not get seven million dollars exactly. 766 00:36:43.559 --> 00:36:46.079 And it was like not even the final, it was 767 00:36:46.239 --> 00:36:49.239 like the quarter finals. He could have just been like, nah, 768 00:36:49.239 --> 00:36:52.719 I'm good. Yeah, but we're a good doll. And So 769 00:36:53.559 --> 00:36:57.559 there is a fascinating moment in this book, Jeff. You 770 00:36:57.639 --> 00:37:01.559 might recall brook Shields a little run when she where 771 00:37:01.599 --> 00:37:02.800 she was on Friends. 772 00:37:02.760 --> 00:37:04.800 She played her own stalker. 773 00:37:04.840 --> 00:37:05.760 I believe, is that right? 774 00:37:05.880 --> 00:37:10.280 Yeah, she played a stalker, And there is a pretty 775 00:37:10.280 --> 00:37:12.639 famous scene in the first episode she's in. It's an 776 00:37:12.639 --> 00:37:16.159 hour long episode where she's having ice cream with Joey. 777 00:37:16.559 --> 00:37:19.639 Definitely one of those post Super Bowl episodes. 778 00:37:19.519 --> 00:37:20.639 Crops like a big deal. 779 00:37:20.840 --> 00:37:23.559 I could see that being a thing. And uh. 780 00:37:23.719 --> 00:37:27.519 In this scene, they're eating ice cream and at one point, 781 00:37:27.719 --> 00:37:30.920 and this was apparently not in the script, but Brooke 782 00:37:30.960 --> 00:37:36.480 Shields starts licking ice cream off Joey's hand and andre 783 00:37:36.679 --> 00:37:39.719 Agassi did not like that? 784 00:37:40.079 --> 00:37:40.400 Why not? 785 00:37:40.800 --> 00:37:44.000 And he had like seen her like kiss dudes on stage. 786 00:37:44.400 --> 00:37:46.599 He like he's showing up to the set of her movie. 787 00:37:46.599 --> 00:37:47.880 She's making out with dudes. 788 00:37:48.639 --> 00:37:52.920 I mean she is swallowing this man's finger, Like. 789 00:37:53.480 --> 00:37:57.679 Sure, you've seen it, right, yeah, yeah, Like google it, folks, 790 00:37:57.719 --> 00:38:01.119 because she is sucking his fingers, dick. 791 00:38:01.239 --> 00:38:05.000 And I wonder if it's that it was improvised that bothered. 792 00:38:05.440 --> 00:38:10.000 Probably this is this is a quote. This is not 793 00:38:10.159 --> 00:38:13.840 my life. This cannot be my life. I'm not really here. 794 00:38:14.320 --> 00:38:17.719 I'm not really sitting with two hundred people watching my 795 00:38:17.840 --> 00:38:20.920 girlfriend lick another man's hand. I look up at the 796 00:38:20.920 --> 00:38:23.920 ceiling directly into the lights. They're gonna do it again. 797 00:38:24.280 --> 00:38:25.920 Quiet please action. 798 00:38:26.440 --> 00:38:29.559 Brook takes Joey's hand and puts it in her mouth 799 00:38:29.960 --> 00:38:33.519 up to the knuckles. This time, she rolls her eyes 800 00:38:33.639 --> 00:38:37.719 back and runs her tongue along dot dot dot. I 801 00:38:37.800 --> 00:38:41.119 jump out of my seat, run downstairs, push through a 802 00:38:41.199 --> 00:38:41.760 side door. 803 00:38:42.000 --> 00:38:42.639 It's dark. 804 00:38:42.840 --> 00:38:45.280 How did it get dark so fast? Right outside the 805 00:38:45.280 --> 00:38:48.360 door is my rented Lincoln behind me. Come Perry and Brook. 806 00:38:48.719 --> 00:38:53.000 Harry's mystified. Brook's frantic. She grabs my arm and asks, 807 00:38:53.039 --> 00:38:56.400 where are you going? You can't be going, and he replied, 808 00:38:56.760 --> 00:38:58.920 have some more hand. I'm out of here. 809 00:38:59.079 --> 00:39:04.360 What a shitty come back nerve? I have some more hand. 810 00:39:04.639 --> 00:39:07.119 Oh so acting, by the way, acting, I don't know 811 00:39:07.159 --> 00:39:07.880 if you've heard of this. 812 00:39:08.039 --> 00:39:10.079 Then again, he didn't want to get mister and missus Smith. 813 00:39:10.920 --> 00:39:13.480 True, true, great movie. It is really good. 814 00:39:13.599 --> 00:39:14.480 Sexy movie. 815 00:39:14.559 --> 00:39:16.440 Oh it's so sexy. So I watched it like not 816 00:39:16.519 --> 00:39:18.599 too long ago. It showed up and I was like, all. 817 00:39:18.639 --> 00:39:20.880 Right, no wonder they got married after. 818 00:39:20.679 --> 00:39:24.639 That that fucking kitchen fight see me? Hell yeah. 819 00:39:24.679 --> 00:39:27.760 And so with that, he hops in his car and 820 00:39:27.880 --> 00:39:32.480 drives all the way to Las Vegas. So did Friends 821 00:39:32.559 --> 00:39:33.960 film in La Burbank? 822 00:39:34.000 --> 00:39:34.159 Yah? 823 00:39:34.199 --> 00:39:37.360 Yeah, yeah, yeah, so not that far but still it's 824 00:39:37.440 --> 00:39:40.400 it's truck. We just did that drive, Yeah, we sure did. 825 00:39:40.519 --> 00:39:43.000 We We like two weeks ago, we did that drive. 826 00:39:43.239 --> 00:39:45.679 And you know what we should have done when we got. 827 00:39:45.480 --> 00:39:49.320 There, gotten some jerky and we didn't. We didn't jerky 828 00:39:49.360 --> 00:39:51.400 what we didn't get any jerky we were supposed to, 829 00:39:51.440 --> 00:39:53.519 and we forgot where were we gonna get jerky? The 830 00:39:53.559 --> 00:39:55.800 alien jerky place? Oh sure, sure, sure. 831 00:39:56.039 --> 00:39:58.079 Well what we also could have done was when we 832 00:39:58.119 --> 00:40:01.159 got to Vegas, we could have smashed all tennis trophies 833 00:40:01.239 --> 00:40:03.480 and trash andre Agassi's house, because we.

834 00:40:03.440 --> 00:40:05.199 Did do that. What are you talking about? 835 00:40:05.880 --> 00:40:09.920 You black out? Yeah? We all the math, all of it. 836 00:40:10.119 --> 00:40:13.280 Yeah, And so yeah, he drives all the way to Vegas, 837 00:40:13.320 --> 00:40:16.079 trashes his fucking house, destroys his trophy, and these are 838 00:40:16.119 --> 00:40:19.039 like his US open trophy, his wimbled and. 839 00:40:19.079 --> 00:40:20.119 True a little bitch. 840 00:40:20.519 --> 00:40:23.320 Yeah. And this was after he and Brooks. 841 00:40:23.320 --> 00:40:26.079 Shields had a phone call and she was like, are 842 00:40:26.119 --> 00:40:29.039 you good? Like you get that? I'm an actor, you've 843 00:40:29.079 --> 00:40:31.599 seen me. And he's just like just different. 844 00:40:31.719 --> 00:40:34.440 It's like, yeah, is it? I think this is what 845 00:40:34.599 --> 00:40:37.719 bitch made is a little bit. Yeah, he's bitch made. 846 00:40:37.880 --> 00:40:40.840 He is bitch made, at least in this moment. And 847 00:40:40.880 --> 00:40:44.920 so naturally, a few short months after this, they decided 848 00:40:44.920 --> 00:40:45.599 to get engaged. 849 00:40:46.000 --> 00:40:46.519 Yeah. 850 00:40:46.760 --> 00:40:48.000 Yeah, I mean I mean that. 851 00:40:47.920 --> 00:40:51.360 Should fix everything. That is, if I recall, that's like 852 00:40:51.519 --> 00:40:53.519 the process by which you do. 853 00:40:53.440 --> 00:40:56.320 It right, right, your girlfriend sucks a dude's finger. 854 00:40:56.480 --> 00:40:58.159 Yeah, you have a little fit in front of a 855 00:40:58.199 --> 00:40:58.840 bunch of people. 856 00:40:59.039 --> 00:41:01.880 Yeah, you storm off to Vegas, to Vegas, break all 857 00:41:01.920 --> 00:41:03.239 your trophies. 858 00:41:03.239 --> 00:41:04.920 And then you get engaged, get engaged. 859 00:41:05.440 --> 00:41:06.519 Then you get a dog. 860 00:41:06.519 --> 00:41:09.079 Of course, of course, I mean you don't want to 861 00:41:09.199 --> 00:41:11.639 rush things. The dogs aren't going anywhere. 862 00:41:11.760 --> 00:41:12.920 You do want to rush things? 863 00:41:13.480 --> 00:41:16.559 Yeah, I suppose. I suppose you absolutely do. When it's 864 00:41:16.840 --> 00:41:18.320 Brooks Shields. 865 00:41:18.000 --> 00:41:22.320 And so Andre Agassi's game is really suffering by this point. 866 00:41:22.559 --> 00:41:24.800 He's he's smashing all his trophies. 867 00:41:25.039 --> 00:41:27.679 Well, he's like pulling out of all his tournaments. He's 868 00:41:27.719 --> 00:41:29.280 not playing that much tennis. 869 00:41:29.440 --> 00:41:31.639 He's pulling out so he can't see them. 870 00:41:33.840 --> 00:41:37.679 That's a sex thing. Oh man, it's a euphemism for 871 00:41:37.719 --> 00:41:42.960 come yeah, come see it's going to come inside the tournament. 872 00:41:43.039 --> 00:41:43.960 Seminole fluid. 873 00:41:44.119 --> 00:41:47.880 Yeah yeah, like hot gooey loads tennis. 874 00:41:48.159 --> 00:41:48.320 Yeah. 875 00:41:48.360 --> 00:41:50.480 I don't think people realize that when someone's like, man, 876 00:41:50.519 --> 00:41:51.639 that's a seminal album. 877 00:41:51.719 --> 00:41:54.599 Yeah, called that the gentleman's volley. 878 00:41:54.719 --> 00:41:56.159 We call that a right. 879 00:41:56.880 --> 00:42:00.800 And so his game is suffering, like throughout all of 880 00:42:00.880 --> 00:42:04.199 nineteen ninety six, he's barely playing Brooks Shields is like, 881 00:42:04.239 --> 00:42:06.159 this is great. We could to spend time together, and 882 00:42:06.159 --> 00:42:08.159 he's like, fuck you. You don't understand what's going on. 883 00:42:08.199 --> 00:42:08.800 I'm depressed. 884 00:42:08.840 --> 00:42:09.159 Fuck you. 885 00:42:09.239 --> 00:42:10.840 I hate I hate tennis. I miss it. 886 00:42:11.039 --> 00:42:14.719 Yeah, exactly, And he got rid of all of his 887 00:42:14.840 --> 00:42:16.559 shackles and he's like, I sure do hate this. 888 00:42:17.039 --> 00:42:20.519 Yeah, yeah, chemical he's a deeply unhappy dude. 889 00:42:20.679 --> 00:42:21.760 Yeah been there. 890 00:42:22.079 --> 00:42:24.840 Yeah, without the money or brook Shields right. 891 00:42:24.840 --> 00:42:29.679 Right, with a burgeoning tennis career, I had that, oh yeah, yeah, sponsorships, 892 00:42:29.679 --> 00:42:30.800 you got a bunch of I do have that. 893 00:42:30.880 --> 00:42:31.360 Yeah. 894 00:42:31.440 --> 00:42:35.119 So he vows that nineteen ninety seven it's going to 895 00:42:35.159 --> 00:42:37.199 be his year, Jeff. He has had a couple of 896 00:42:37.280 --> 00:42:40.360 years he's been He's going to turn things around. This 897 00:42:40.440 --> 00:42:43.639 is really going to be his year. And things fall 898 00:42:43.679 --> 00:42:47.960 apart pretty quickly. First, Gil's daughter breaks her neck in 899 00:42:48.039 --> 00:42:51.519 a sledding accident, and I mean he's as close as 900 00:42:51.559 --> 00:42:54.400 he is to Gil, he's obviously close to the family 901 00:42:54.639 --> 00:43:00.519 in general, and he takes this really hard. Yeah probably, yeah, 902 00:43:00.559 --> 00:43:03.400 And he you know, does a bunch of stuff to 903 00:43:03.440 --> 00:43:06.719 help Gill out. He like buys him a like RV 904 00:43:07.320 --> 00:43:10.440 so you can just like sleep at the hospital or 905 00:43:10.679 --> 00:43:12.079 like a van something like. 906 00:43:12.039 --> 00:43:14.400 That, get him an rv Andre, Yeah, I. 907 00:43:14.360 --> 00:43:17.119 Mean I bet it was a pretty plush van, like 908 00:43:17.159 --> 00:43:20.159 you see those vans. It's a windstar see those vans 909 00:43:20.159 --> 00:43:23.639 on Instagram, an instavan where people are like this used 910 00:43:23.679 --> 00:43:27.639 to deliver pizzas and now it's a jacuzzi in it upstairs. 911 00:43:28.000 --> 00:43:32.079 And so that happens that he's he's super stressed about 912 00:43:32.119 --> 00:43:36.119 that his game is suffering. And so one day back 913

00:43:36.159 --> 00:43:39.639 in Vegas, he's hanging out with his assistant, a guy 914 00:43:39.760 --> 00:43:41.599 ominously named Slim. 915 00:43:42.000 --> 00:43:44.320 If somebody is that is their name, they're going to 916 00:43:44.360 --> 00:43:46.280 get you in trouble. Yeah, yeah, you don't have a 917 00:43:46.320 --> 00:43:47.199 troubled nickname. 918 00:43:47.519 --> 00:43:50.119 Yeah you don't. You don't want to Slim in your life. 919 00:43:50.320 --> 00:43:52.559 So I was hanging out with my assistant Viper. 920 00:43:52.719 --> 00:43:57.800 Exactly, and Slim is also really stressed out because he 921 00:43:58.320 --> 00:44:01.079 was boning his girl the other night and the condom broke. 922 00:44:01.559 --> 00:44:04.840 No shit that I was born in this girl and 923 00:44:04.960 --> 00:44:08.239 the condom broke, and I was like, oh no. 924 00:44:09.480 --> 00:44:13.440 And so Slim has a pretty novel suggestion for what 925 00:44:13.519 --> 00:44:15.920 the two of them can do to de stress a 926 00:44:15.960 --> 00:44:16.360 little bit. 927 00:44:16.559 --> 00:44:19.679 We've been in scenarios like this before. We've been through 928 00:44:19.719 --> 00:44:23.039 shit together around the same time, and we've been like, man, 929 00:44:23.079 --> 00:44:24.639 we gotta get we gotta do something. You want to 930 00:44:24.639 --> 00:44:27.360 go to a movie or do something. 931 00:44:27.280 --> 00:44:31.199 And inevitably, yeah, the talk turns to, well, let's just 932 00:44:31.239 --> 00:44:32.000 do some myth. 933 00:44:32.079 --> 00:44:35.760 Yeah, yeah, we've been there. Who has not. We have 934 00:44:35.960 --> 00:44:41.639 vibrated through that entire craving, And for some reason, Andre 935 00:44:41.760 --> 00:44:44.559 Agassy is like, yeah, okay, I think I know the reason. 936 00:44:45.880 --> 00:44:48.079 What's the reason that he wanted to smoke some myth. 937 00:44:48.320 --> 00:44:51.679 That that is true? This is a quote, and boy 938 00:44:51.760 --> 00:44:54.920 does this not make myths sound bad at all? Here 939 00:44:55.000 --> 00:44:59.039 goes I've never felt so alive, so hopeful, and above all, 940 00:44:59.079 --> 00:45:02.320 I've never felt such a energy. I'm seized by an urge, 941 00:45:02.679 --> 00:45:06.320 a desperate desire to clean. I go tearing around my house, 942 00:45:06.400 --> 00:45:09.400 cleaning it from top to bottom. I dust the furniture, 943 00:45:09.440 --> 00:45:12.360 I scour the tub, I make the beds, I sweep 944 00:45:12.400 --> 00:45:15.199 the floors. When there's nothing left to clean, I do laundry, 945 00:45:15.400 --> 00:45:19.159 all the laundry. I fold every sweater and T shirt. 946 00:45:19.480 --> 00:45:22.280 And still I haven't made a debt in my energy. 947 00:45:22.599 --> 00:45:25.039 I don't want to sit down. If I had table silver, 948 00:45:25.239 --> 00:45:28.079 i'd polish it. If I had leather shoes, I'd shine them. 949 00:45:28.280 --> 00:45:30.639 If I had a giant jug of coins, I'd

roll 950 00:45:30.760 --> 00:45:31.960 them into paper wrappers. 951 00:45:32.119 --> 00:45:34.199 Did he have those things or did he not have 952 00:45:34.280 --> 00:45:36.880 those things? It's very confusing here. Apparently he did not. 953 00:45:37.119 --> 00:45:38.760 Do you have hewn to no leather shoes? 954 00:45:39.559 --> 00:45:39.760 Yes? 955 00:45:40.360 --> 00:45:43.199 Shine up a pair of nikes, yeah, stitch up a 956 00:45:43.199 --> 00:45:46.840 pair of denim booty shorts, right like the olden days. 957 00:45:46.840 --> 00:45:49.760 And then polish and I love this part. I look 958 00:45:49.840 --> 00:45:52.239 high and low for Slim. He's out in the garage 959 00:45:52.280 --> 00:45:54.400 taking apart the engine of his car and putting it together. 960 00:45:54.599 --> 00:45:56.760 Kid, Adam, I gotta be honest. I think we should 961 00:45:56.760 --> 00:45:59.760 start smoking meth. I think this sounds incredible. 962 00:46:00.199 --> 00:46:03.760 Well, I think we start smoking meth. But also do 963 00:46:03.840 --> 00:46:05.079 the bacon sandwich thing. 964 00:46:05.320 --> 00:46:07.960 Put the meth in the bacon sandwich or we alternate. 965 00:46:08.440 --> 00:46:12.440 We alternate twenty minutes, bacon sandwich, another twenty minutes, meth 966 00:46:13.239 --> 00:46:13.920 bacon sandwich. 967 00:46:14.039 --> 00:46:14.679 All sounds great. 968 00:46:14.840 --> 00:46:15.920 Another twenty minutes. 969 00:46:16.239 --> 00:46:18.079 That does sound like how it would happen. 970 00:46:18.199 --> 00:46:21.440 So we're either getting meth twice an hour or bacon 971 00:46:21.480 --> 00:46:23.400 sandwich is twice an hour, and then the other. 972 00:46:23.559 --> 00:46:24.280 A win is a win. 973 00:46:24.519 --> 00:46:27.320 Yeah, Yeah, it's gonna be a good hour either way. 974 00:46:27.400 --> 00:46:29.440 Your heart's gonna love you for both of those things. 975 00:46:29.519 --> 00:46:32.039 Yeah, yeah, that I'm fine with that. That should be 976 00:46:32.079 --> 00:46:36.559 our new recording policy. So in April of nineteen ninety seven, 977 00:46:36.639 --> 00:46:41.719 andre Agassy and Brookshields get married Hitler's birthday Eve Oh right, yep, 978 00:46:41.920 --> 00:46:43.079 column buy and Eve. 979 00:46:43.559 --> 00:46:45.880 No a year Oh I thought you meant because it 980 00:46:45.960 --> 00:46:47.559 was a year after right, Well it was ninety nine 981 00:46:47.559 --> 00:46:47.920 when that. 982 00:46:47.880 --> 00:46:50.039 Happened, right, it was my ninety nine to nine. 983 00:46:50.119 --> 00:46:52.039 Yeah, because I was a senior in high school, so 984 00:46:52.039 --> 00:46:52.920 it was ninety nine. 985 00:46:53.159 --> 00:46:56.159 Probably Yep, April twentieth, nineteen ninety nine. 986 00:46:56.400 --> 00:46:58.000 That was my glory days. Man. 987 00:46:58.360 --> 00:47:01.000 Hell yeah. 988 00:47:01.039 --> 00:47:04.920 So the story of their wedding is another really fascinating 989 00:47:05.480 --> 00:47:08.760 chapter in this book and involves horses. It involves matching 990 00:47:08.840 --> 00:47:14.280 dnim ountfits will sprinkle a myth. I mean, I don't 991 00:47:14.280 --> 00:47:16.760 think she knew he was doing meth, which is yeah. 992 00:47:16.559 --> 00:47:19.519 I mean I guess like, if andre Agassi has energy, 993 00:47:19.519 --> 00:47:21.639 you're like, well, the man is a horse. 994 00:47:21.920 --> 00:47:25.400 And also one of the things he keeps bringing up is, yeah, 995 00:47:25.440 --> 00:47:28.320 we got married knowing that we're like never going to 996 00:47:28.360 --> 00:47:31.159 see each other, Like she's always off doing acting shit, 997 00:47:31.320 --> 00:47:35.280 and I was traveling for tennis, so they like didn't 998 00:47:35.559 --> 00:47:36.280 see each. 999 00:47:36.119 --> 00:47:38.800 Other that much. Sounds fucking awful. 1000 00:47:39.199 --> 00:47:43.280 Yeah. He the way he describes this marriage, and we'll 1001 00:47:43.280 --> 00:47:47.320 get to a quote later on, it's kind of grim. 1002 00:47:46.639 --> 00:47:50.280 Like he's like, all the marriages, Oh, hey, am I right, 1003 00:47:50.440 --> 00:47:52.760 take my wife please, but not my wife. I love 1004 00:47:52.800 --> 00:47:53.159 my wife. 1005 00:47:53.559 --> 00:47:57.920 And yeah, he seems like a very deeply unhappy man 1006 00:47:58.239 --> 00:47:59.480 at this moment in. 1007 00:47:59.400 --> 00:48:01.400 His life, in uh wife life. 1008 00:48:01.760 --> 00:48:04.960 At the wedding, she makes him wear lifts because she 1009 00:48:05.159 --> 00:48:09.360 is a tower of a woman. She's six feet plus 1010 00:48:09.440 --> 00:48:12.760 and Andrea Agassy is not, and she didn't want to 1011 00:48:12.760 --> 00:48:15.079 tower over him in the wedding pictures, so she was like, 1012 00:48:15.199 --> 00:48:16.920 put some lifts in your shoes, little. 1013 00:48:16.679 --> 00:48:19.920 Guy, Hey, little guy, what you're doing down there? From 1014 00:48:20.079 --> 00:48:23.559 little apples scrawls the scalp. 1015 00:48:25.599 --> 00:48:26.599 That's gross. 1016 00:48:26.800 --> 00:48:29.960 And they have the ceremony in this tiny little church, 1017 00:48:30.519 --> 00:48:33.920 like an old church, like the November Rain Church kind 1018 00:48:33.920 --> 00:48:37.559 of yeah, which if you if you're picturing the November 1019 00:48:37.639 --> 00:48:39.679 Rain Church in your head, you're probably not seeing a 1020 00:48:39.679 --> 00:48:43.199 lot of air conditioning. And so it was super fucking hot, 1021 00:48:43.360 --> 00:48:50.159 and Andrea Agassy breaks out into uncontrollable sweats during this ceremony. Well, 1022 00:48:50.239 --> 00:48:55.760 groom hasn't just fucking dripping with sweat. After all the 1023 00:48:55.840 --> 00:48:58.440 pageantry is over, the two of them head to their 1024 00:48:58.440 --> 00:49:01.960 hotel suite to to consummate. 1025 00:49:01.440 --> 00:49:04.559 To pork yeah believe to put it biblically. 1026 00:49:04.400 --> 00:49:07.400

And Andrea AGAs finally for the first time. By the way, right, 1027 00:49:07.639 --> 00:49:11.639 and Andrea Agassy had outfitted their room with hundreds of 1028 00:49:11.719 --> 00:49:13.920 candles just to be romantic. 1029 00:49:14.039 --> 00:49:15.559 I think I would do anything for love video. 1030 00:49:15.719 --> 00:49:19.360 Yeah, and here's a quote. Too many candles. The room 1031 00:49:19.440 --> 00:49:23.400 is an oven. It's hotter than the church. Again, I 1032 00:49:23.519 --> 00:49:26.159 start to sweat, We start to blow out the candles 1033 00:49:26.280 --> 00:49:27.199 and the smoke. 1034 00:49:27.039 --> 00:49:30.519 Detectors go off. Hell yeah, So it sounds like his 1035 00:49:30.639 --> 00:49:31.360 year so far. 1036 00:49:31.760 --> 00:49:34.199 It does seem like he was his copying music videos 1037 00:49:34.239 --> 00:49:35.800 for his wedding. Yeah. 1038 00:49:35.800 --> 00:49:39.039 That's the thing in Spike Lee movies too. There's inevitably 1039 00:49:39.119 --> 00:49:41.400 in a Spike Lee movie, if people are going to 1040 00:49:41.480 --> 00:49:44.360 have sex, there are seven hundred and fifty candles in 1041 00:49:44.360 --> 00:49:46.760 that room. It's like, God, that seems like a lot 1042 00:49:46.760 --> 00:49:47.440 of maintenance. 1043 00:49:47.480 --> 00:49:49.440 And in Spike Lee movies it's usually not in the 1044 00:49:49.440 --> 00:49:52.599 best places. Oh no, No, it's usually like a very 1045 00:49:52.639 --> 00:49:55.480 flammable house. Yeah, and that's happening. 1046 00:49:56.320 --> 00:49:58.960 And so instead of nineteen ninety seven be in his year, 1047 00:49:59.159 --> 00:50:02.199 he spends most of it pulling out a tournaments and 1048 00:50:02.320 --> 00:50:02.960 hanging out with. 1049 00:50:02.960 --> 00:50:07.440 Slim, smoking myth. Getting married in the worst scenario you 1050 00:50:07.440 --> 00:50:08.239 could possibly have. 1051 00:50:08.639 --> 00:50:11.760 And he was smoking a lot of myth at this time. 1052 00:50:12.079 --> 00:50:15.519 And I promised there was a quote coming that kind 1053 00:50:15.519 --> 00:50:20.199 of typifies his attitude toward his marriage with Brookshields. He 1054 00:50:20.480 --> 00:50:24.199 was on a trip with brook Shields and she had 1055 00:50:24.239 --> 00:50:27.320 an actor friend who she was very close to, and 1056 00:50:27.360 --> 00:50:30.000 he was going to North Carolina to visit his family. 1057 00:50:30.360 --> 00:50:32.599 And she was like, hey, me and Andre will come along. 1058 00:50:32.920 --> 00:50:34.480 Did they not name the actor friend? 1059 00:50:35.119 --> 00:50:38.119 Yeah, it's is it David Strickland. 1060 00:50:38.199 --> 00:50:42.239 Matt LeBlanc, it was whoever she was on fucking Suddenly 1061 00:50:42.280 --> 00:50:43.079 Susan with. 1062 00:50:43.920 --> 00:50:45.920 But his last name is Strickland. I just don't know 1063 00:50:45.920 --> 00:50:48.039 if I'm getting the first name right. Kind of an 1064 00:50:48.119 --> 00:50:49.079 unimportant detail. 1065 00:50:49.280 --> 00:50:53.400 Yes, yes, there is David Strickland. Yeah, okay, and oh 1066 00:50:53.440 --> 00:50:56.800 he wait did he die in nineteen ninety nine? Yeah, 1067 00:50:56.840 --> 00:50:59.719 he died when he was thirty. Oh no, he was 1068 00:51:00.559 --> 00:51:04.559 I think welcome Strickland cast like, yeah, yeah, he was 1069 00:51:04.599 --> 00:51:09.239 on Suddenly Susan he played Todd He fucking died. Yeah, man, 1070 00:51:09.360 --> 00:51:11.400 that's like such a bummer. You know what else is 1071 00:51:11.440 --> 00:51:14.599 a bummer? Oh? Andy Dick basically killed him. What is 1072 00:51:14.639 --> 00:51:17.679 happening right now? He On March twentieth, nineteen ninety nine, 1073 00:51:17.719 --> 00:51:19.960 he and comedian Andy Dick flew from Los Angeles to 1074 00:51:20.000 --> 00:51:22.559 Las Vegas spent three days partying in his strip clubs. 1075 00:51:22.880 --> 00:51:25.440 After chicking into a motel, he spent time with a prostitute, 1076 00:51:25.480 --> 00:51:28.000 consumed six bottles of beer, and then hanged himself with 1077 00:51:28.039 --> 00:51:30.480 a bed sheet over the ceiling beam. It sounds like 1078 00:51:30.559 --> 00:51:33.320 he killed himself. Yes, I understand, But if you're around 1079 00:51:33.320 --> 00:51:35.480 Andy Dick, he's going to cause you to do some shit. 1080 00:51:35.599 --> 00:51:37.559 You know. Yeah, I could see that. Like if you're 1081 00:51:37.599 --> 00:51:40.400 like that is rock bottom. Yeah, you're like, I'm gonna 1082 00:51:40.400 --> 00:51:41.800 spend a weekend with Andy Dick. 1083 00:51:42.079 --> 00:51:44.519 So anyway, this quote, sorry, I'm sorry, it's just like 1084 00:51:44.679 --> 00:51:47.320 that was a jarring piece of information to receive. 1085 00:51:47.719 --> 00:51:48.679 Yeah, I mean I don't. 1086 00:51:48.519 --> 00:51:51.320 Know anything about David Strickland. He could as someone who 1087 00:51:51.360 --> 00:51:52.960 was friends with Andy Dick died. 1088 00:51:53.360 --> 00:51:54.960 No, It's just like I was like, yeah, it was 1089 00:51:55.000 --> 00:51:55.360 this guy. 1090 00:51:55.480 --> 00:51:57.800 Oh, my God, like I think everyone who's friends with 1091 00:51:57.840 --> 00:52:01.159 Andy Dick eventually dies in Vegas. Yeah, here's that quote, 1092 00:52:01.320 --> 00:52:04.119 and this is him referring to leaving this trip to 1093 00:52:04.719 --> 00:52:06.440 the house. I don't know if people remember, but we 1094 00:52:06.519 --> 00:52:07.239 talked about. 1095 00:52:07.199 --> 00:52:09.679 Sorry, it's been for a while. I'm sorry, but I 1096 00:52:10.199 --> 00:52:12.360 do not apologize. Actually, I take back my I'm sorry. 1097 00:52:12.400 --> 00:52:14.639 Here we go at last, it's time for me to leave. 1098 00:52:15.039 --> 00:52:19.039 I kiss Brooke goodbye, kiss Granny Strickland goodbye, and noticed 1099 00:52:19.039 --> 00:52:21.239 that both kisses have the same amount of passion. 1100

00:52:21.280 --> 00:52:22.960 He was trying to fuck Granny strict. 1101 00:52:22.760 --> 00:52:27.480 Fucking tongued Granny Strickland down can then deep dicking bro 1102 00:52:28.239 --> 00:52:30.800 I hope that is what he means. 1103 00:52:30.559 --> 00:52:32.840 To He's like, I was just a fuck machine at 1104 00:52:32.880 --> 00:52:33.639 this point in time. 1105 00:52:33.920 --> 00:52:37.519 God, it's crazy how much Granny Strickland turned me on. 1106 00:52:37.679 --> 00:52:43.440 Granny Strickland kept it tight. Got that tongue, Oh, really 1107 00:52:43.480 --> 00:52:48.679 went through it? What that tongue do? Dentures do? Granny Strickland? Oh? 1108 00:52:48.719 --> 00:52:52.119 I want that to be it. You didn't say what 1109 00:52:52.199 --> 00:52:55.639 direction the passion was not with a fight with the 1110 00:52:55.679 --> 00:52:59.800 fire of ten thousand sons, I buried my members deep 1111 00:52:59.800 --> 00:53:05.840 in Granny Strickland's cavern of love. Oh my lost unbridled 1112 00:53:06.320 --> 00:53:09.280 Brooke could only watch in terror as I tore Granny 1113 00:53:09.320 --> 00:53:12.880 Strickland apart. We love you, Granny Strickland. I think she's 1114 00:53:12.920 --> 00:53:13.360 still alive. 1115 00:53:13.599 --> 00:53:15.000 He also died with Andy Dick. 1116 00:53:15.079 --> 00:53:18.480 Yeah, exactly. It is said that anybody who comes to 1117 00:53:18.559 --> 00:53:22.559 Vegas with Andy Dick will meet their end within two years. 1118 00:53:22.679 --> 00:53:22.840 Yeah. 1119 00:53:22.880 --> 00:53:25.440 Remember we went to the Haunted Museum and there's the 1120 00:53:25.480 --> 00:53:29.599 Andy Dick Andy Dick Room, Andy Dick sitting in there, like, hey, hey, 1121 00:53:30.920 --> 00:53:32.400 oh my god, we should hang out sometime. 1122 00:53:33.159 --> 00:53:36.000 They're like, talk to Andy Dick if you want, don't 1123 00:53:36.280 --> 00:53:37.559 don't recommend. 1124 00:53:37.119 --> 00:53:38.480 It, don't look Andy Dick in the eye. 1125 00:53:39.079 --> 00:53:41.800 Say goodbye to Andy Dick under your breath. 1126 00:53:41.880 --> 00:53:45.880 Make sure leave an offering for Andy Dick for good fortune, 1127 00:53:46.199 --> 00:53:49.360 and it should be drugs should be. 1128 00:53:49.719 --> 00:53:51.719 The meth that andre Agassi did not smoke. 1129 00:53:52.159 --> 00:53:55.559 Oh, speaking of that. Around this time, Brad Gilbert's like, look, dude, 1130 00:53:55.679 --> 00:53:58.360 I could I could be like managing someone good. And 1131 00:53:58.480 --> 00:53:59.320 you suck right now. 1132 00:53:59.400 --> 00:54:02.199 You seem to be falling apart at the seams, and 1133 00:54:02.559 --> 00:54:06.159 you've been really doing a lot with this granny. You're 1134 00:54:06.480 --> 00:54:09.559 hanging around this new North Carolina Granny a whole lot man. 1135 00:54:10.079 --> 00:54:14.639 He even mentions a tournament that he lost where the 1136 00:54:14.719 --> 00:54:20.199 reporters in the postmatch press conference were just like are 1137 00:54:20.239 --> 00:54:22.840 you okay? Like they weren't like, hey, what happened with 1138 00:54:22.880 --> 00:54:25.960 your game today? They were like, dude, what the fuck 1139 00:54:26.079 --> 00:54:27.199 is going on with you? 1140 00:54:27.320 --> 00:54:31.039 Yeah? You're real piece of shit there, dre and it 1141 00:54:31.440 --> 00:54:32.559 because he was smoking meth. 1142 00:54:32.800 --> 00:54:36.840 Was smoking meth, and so Brad Gilbert pulls him aside 1143 00:54:36.840 --> 00:54:40.280 and he's like, look, dude, we need to like fucking 1144 00:54:40.400 --> 00:54:44.280 refocus here. I got a plan, Like we can figure 1145 00:54:44.280 --> 00:54:47.639 this out, but you have to be committed to this. 1146 00:54:48.320 --> 00:54:49.920 First up, clean living. 1147 00:54:50.440 --> 00:54:54.320 Let's go, Well that's the thing. Just bacon sandwiches, baby, 1148 00:54:54.360 --> 00:54:55.199 that's all we're doing. 1149 00:54:55.519 --> 00:54:58.800 Andre Agassi agrees to it, and then a few weeks 1150 00:54:58.880 --> 00:55:01.760 after that conversation and like they start on it right away, 1151 00:55:01.800 --> 00:55:04.480 they start like working out. In a few weeks after 1152 00:55:04.519 --> 00:55:08.360 that conversation, he's walking through LaGuardia Airport and he gets 1153 00:55:08.400 --> 00:55:13.440 a call from a doctor representing the ATP, which is 1154 00:55:13.960 --> 00:55:19.039 American Tennis Professionals, I believe, And he's calling to inform 1155 00:55:19.079 --> 00:55:23.800 andre Agasy that not gonna believe this, but he has failed. 1156 00:55:23.440 --> 00:55:25.480 To post match drug test. 1157 00:55:26.760 --> 00:55:31.159 Tested positive for trace amounts of crystal meth, they told him, 1158 00:55:31.360 --> 00:55:32.800 and so he's like. 1159 00:55:32.880 --> 00:55:37.639 Fuck, Andre, I'm gonna have to let you go tested ropium. 1160 00:55:39.079 --> 00:55:42.320 And so now he's facing three months suspension. This part 1161 00:55:42.400 --> 00:55:45.760 I found mind blowing. When he's on the phone with 1162 00:55:45.800 --> 00:55:49.280 the doctor, he's like, well, what does this mean? And 1163 00:55:49.320 --> 00:55:52.639 the doctor's like, well, if it was a performance enhancing drug, 1164 00:55:52.960 --> 00:55:56.079 you'd be facing a year's suspension, but meth is just 1165 00:55:56.119 --> 00:55:58.840 a party drug, so it's only three months. 1166 00:55:58.800 --> 00:56:01.199 And I don't know if you've heard about that performance 1167 00:56:01.239 --> 00:56:04.280 he put on in the house, but yeah, and like 1168 00:56:04.400 --> 00:56:06.760 I cleaned my broken trophies. 1169 00:56:06.559 --> 00:56:11.199 And like think about baseball and how methamphetamines were such 1170 00:56:11.239 --> 00:56:13.199 a thing in base Like math. 1171 00:56:13.119 --> 00:56:16.519 Is absolutely a performance. In the Boston Marathon, if I 1172 00:56:16.559 --> 00:56:19.000

smoked meth before I ran, yeah, or I would die 1173 00:56:19.039 --> 00:56:21.719 three steps into the run. One of the two. It's 1174 00:56:21.800 --> 00:56:23.840 only either way you win. You think of all the 1175 00:56:23.920 --> 00:56:28.480 responsibility either way. No cares at the end of the race, right, 1176 00:56:29.639 --> 00:56:32.239 And so he's only facing I also wouldn't have to 1177 00:56:32.280 --> 00:56:34.559 run twenty six miles, right. 1178 00:56:35.039 --> 00:56:38.360 And so he's facing a three month suspension because they 1179 00:56:38.639 --> 00:56:42.159 decide meth is not a performance enhancer, and he's like, 1180 00:56:42.239 --> 00:56:43.440 all right, so what do. 1181 00:56:43.400 --> 00:56:44.880 I have to do? And the guy's right. 1182 00:56:45.239 --> 00:56:47.679 The guy is like, you have to write us a 1183 00:56:47.760 --> 00:56:50.480 letter and explain what happened. 1184 00:56:50.480 --> 00:56:55.199 My dearest, AHP. It has been several days since our 1185 00:56:55.280 --> 00:56:56.079 last encounter. 1186 00:56:56.639 --> 00:56:58.079 I must tell you I've had. 1187 00:56:57.920 --> 00:57:02.519 Quite a horrible encounter on the battlefield with the methamphetamine. 1188 00:57:03.000 --> 00:57:06.199 And obviously he's got no choice but to just, you know, 1189 00:57:06.480 --> 00:57:08.960 face it and tell the truth and be like, yeah, 1190 00:57:09.039 --> 00:57:13.199 I made a mistake, and I willingly smoked meth amphetamine, 1191 00:57:13.239 --> 00:57:17.880 and I take whatever punishment comes my way with full responsibility. 1192 00:57:18.039 --> 00:57:18.880 Jeff, just joking. 1193 00:57:19.079 --> 00:57:19.760 I wouldn't do that. 1194 00:57:20.119 --> 00:57:24.800 He lies like a motherfucker. I would do that too, Yeah, 1195 00:57:24.880 --> 00:57:27.719 of course I would. I would lie my fucking face 1196 00:57:27.760 --> 00:57:30.840 off for that. You know why, because his fucking income 1197 00:57:30.960 --> 00:57:34.440 is based on Nike not knowing he smoked meth. Yeah. 1198 00:57:34.800 --> 00:57:37.559 Yeah, And so the lie he comes up with. He 1199 00:57:37.679 --> 00:57:43.159 tells the ATP that his friend Slim would sometimes spike 1200 00:57:43.639 --> 00:57:46.320 his own sodas with methamphetamine, which was. 1201 00:57:46.280 --> 00:57:47.480 True liquid meth. 1202 00:57:47.559 --> 00:57:50.440 We saw that on the when toss over to that 1203 00:57:50.760 --> 00:57:54.119 liquid meth. How to fix a drug scandal podcast. We guess, yeah, 1204 00:57:54.400 --> 00:57:56.840 say that's called synergy, it's brand synergy out of it? 1205 00:57:56.840 --> 00:57:58.199 Sure is it? Sure is? 1206 00:57:58.599 --> 00:58:01.320 And uh He's like, yeah, my friend Slim would do this. 1207 00:58:01.599 --> 00:58:05.159 And one day I didn't realize it, but I picked 1208 00:58:05.239 --> 00:58:07.280 up a soda that I thought was mine and it 1209 00:58:07.360 --> 00:58:09.800 was actually his, and I took a drink and

he 1210 00:58:09.960 --> 00:58:13.000 was like, let me tell you, I felt like I'd 1211 00:58:13.039 --> 00:58:16.880 been poisoned and I never want to touch that stuff again. 1212 00:58:17.079 --> 00:58:21.239 And it fucking worked. They were like, that's a believable story. Yeah, 1213 00:58:21.239 --> 00:58:23.280 it's actually you have to throw Slim under the bus. 1214 00:58:23.280 --> 00:58:25.039 For God's sake, Slim got you the meth in the 1215 00:58:25.079 --> 00:58:26.920 first place, and now you're throwing him under the bus 1216 00:58:26.960 --> 00:58:29.480 from what meth? Yeah, he was also likely. 1217 00:58:29.719 --> 00:58:33.320 He was also like, Slim's been fired and like yeah, maybe, 1218 00:58:33.320 --> 00:58:36.239 but he was also deeply invested in Slim's life. 1219 00:58:36.360 --> 00:58:38.199 I bet, I bet Slim got a hell of a 1220 00:58:38.199 --> 00:58:43.000 severance package. Yeah, and or killed. So Slim died earlier. 1221 00:58:42.679 --> 00:58:46.400 Today and he fires that letter off to the ATP 1222 00:58:46.519 --> 00:58:47.440 and it fucking works. 1223 00:58:47.719 --> 00:58:50.400 Hell Yeah, and congratulations Andre. 1224 00:58:51.079 --> 00:58:55.880 But this was absolute rock bottom for Andre Agassy. He 1225 00:58:56.280 --> 00:58:59.960 at this point had fallen to one hundred and four 1226 00:59:00.000 --> 00:59:02.000 pread first in the world. 1227 00:59:02.239 --> 00:59:04.719 That number ain't going to pull you, Granny Strickland. No, 1228 00:59:05.239 --> 00:59:07.000 that's she's a top ten lady. 1229 00:59:07.320 --> 00:59:10.760 That's rough, like that is, that's going to be a 1230 00:59:10.800 --> 00:59:14.480 climb to get back to the top. And by this 1231 00:59:14.599 --> 00:59:18.840 point in history, most people assumed Andrea Agassi's career was 1232 00:59:19.199 --> 00:59:21.920 coming to an end, and uh, I know I did. 1233 00:59:22.159 --> 00:59:25.639 We'll find out if it really was next episode. 1234 00:59:26.119 --> 00:59:28.599 Another ominous thing that I forgot to bring up that 1235 00:59:28.760 --> 00:59:32.679 happened in this episode because we've kind of already spoiled that. 1236 00:59:32.840 --> 00:59:36.880 Andrea Agassy is married to stephie Graff. Now it's goddamn right, 1237 00:59:37.000 --> 00:59:39.880 and has been since like early two thousands, and. 1238 00:59:39.760 --> 00:59:43.119 They've just been smoking meth this whole time. 1239 00:59:43.360 --> 00:59:49.159 At one point during their engagement, brookshield started working with 1240 00:59:49.320 --> 00:59:53.079 Gil to like get in shape for this wedding, like 1241 00:59:53.199 --> 00:59:57.760 working out really hard. And one day Andrea Agassy comes 1242 00:59:57.760 --> 01:00:01.159 home and there is a picture hanging on the refrigerator 1243 01:00:01.400 --> 01:00:02.599 and he's like, the. 1244 01:00:02.559 --> 01:00:03.239 Fuck is this? 1245 01:00:03.599 --> 01:00:06.679 And Brooke Shields is like, Oh, that's the ideal

body. 1246 01:00:06.920 --> 01:00:09.079 That's who I want to look at, or that's who 1247 01:00:09.079 --> 01:00:11.119 I want to look like. Jeff, can you guess who 1248 01:00:11.119 --> 01:00:11.440 it was? 1249 01:00:12.159 --> 01:00:13.000 Pete Samprass. 1250 01:00:13.159 --> 01:00:15.599 It was Pete Sampress crazy. 1251 01:00:15.280 --> 01:00:17.199 Yeah, she got she became a swarthy woman. 1252 01:00:17.599 --> 01:00:19.519 Yeah, it was Steffie Groff. 1253 01:00:19.719 --> 01:00:21.679 He's like, that is the ideal body, if you know 1254 01:00:21.679 --> 01:00:22.199 what I'm saying. 1255 01:00:22.199 --> 01:00:26.239 And he had never mentioned Steffie Groff to her before. 1256 01:00:26.519 --> 01:00:30.039 She just picked up on them legs because here's the thing, 1257 01:00:30.639 --> 01:00:33.159 Steffie Groff, she got some stems. 1258 01:00:33.440 --> 01:00:35.920 Yeah yeah, no, Eve even like you look at the 1259 01:00:35.920 --> 01:00:39.840 pictures now and you're like, yeah, she really fucking nailed it. Yeah. 1260 01:00:39.880 --> 01:00:44.519 So that's a little ominous in terms of their wedding 1261 01:00:44.760 --> 01:00:48.000 and the chances it's going to survive. Pretty sweet though, 1262 01:00:48.239 --> 01:00:49.840 it's a sweet picture. I like it. 1263 01:00:49.920 --> 01:00:51.760 Should we even tell people there's a picture of Andrea 1264 01:00:51.760 --> 01:00:52.800 Agassy and Steffie Graff? 1265 01:00:52.840 --> 01:00:55.079 No, I should have let them guess the picture of 1266 01:00:55.079 --> 01:00:57.960 my big old Harry Nuts. I'll bleep it out, so. 1267 01:00:59.559 --> 01:01:00.280 It's sure. 1268 01:01:02.039 --> 01:01:02.880 Hell yeah. 1269 01:01:02.920 --> 01:01:06.480 So yeah, that's what we're We're we're round and third 1270 01:01:06.559 --> 01:01:12.760 head for home to use a tennis analogy, and next episode, 1271 01:01:12.440 --> 01:01:14.920 I mean, we're gonna have to talk about that comeback 1272 01:01:15.239 --> 01:01:19.519 because spoiler alert, man, does Andre Agassy come back from this? 1273 01:01:19.920 --> 01:01:22.920 Thanks to math, which I don't know. 1274 01:01:22.920 --> 01:01:24.960 I don't hate that part of the story because it 1275 01:01:25.000 --> 01:01:27.559 really was a thing, like I'm old enough to remember 1276 01:01:27.840 --> 01:01:30.559 when people were like, fucking andre Agassy. 1277 01:01:30.159 --> 01:01:31.119 That guy's done. 1278 01:01:31.400 --> 01:01:34.960 Yeah, I remember that, and then he he legitimately comes back, 1279 01:01:35.400 --> 01:01:38.719 and actually, as far as we've gotten into his career, 1280 01:01:38.960 --> 01:01:42.920 we have not gotten to the winningest of his career. 1281 01:01:43.079 --> 01:01:47.519 Like everything after this is when he really fucking becomes 1282 01:01:47.920 --> 01:01:49.280 the legend that he is. 1283 01:01:49.639 --> 01:01:53.719 He's not legend as a granny fucker. Reminds me a 1284 01:01:53.719 --> 01:01:56.960 lot of Steve Earle we've did in season of the 1285 01:01:57.039 --> 01:02:00.639 Music Pod. On that podcast, please stop talking about Earl. 1286 01:02:00.960 --> 01:02:04.920 And he is a singer songwriter. He's fucking great. He 1287 01:02:05.039 --> 01:02:07.239 is a great huge leftists. 1288 01:02:08.079 --> 01:02:09.480 He's what country's supposed to be. 1289 01:02:09.719 --> 01:02:14.079 Yeah, yeah, absolutely, And he at one point went to 1290 01:02:14.360 --> 01:02:18.639 prison just for like using crack, Like that's how much 1291 01:02:18.800 --> 01:02:19.840 drugs he was doing. 1292 01:02:19.880 --> 01:02:23.159 They were like, this is criminal. You must be stopped 1293 01:02:23.159 --> 01:02:24.360 and you have to go to prison. 1294 01:02:24.440 --> 01:02:27.079 He went to prison for a while and then came 1295 01:02:27.119 --> 01:02:29.880 back and just made all the best music his career. 1296 01:02:29.960 --> 01:02:33.159 Oh yeah, So that's where we're headed with andre Agassy. 1297 01:02:33.239 --> 01:02:36.800 I think should we do the Sampras episode? Last I 1298 01:02:36.840 --> 01:02:38.960 don't know. We'll see where the research takes. You don't know, 1299 01:02:39.239 --> 01:02:40.960 We don't know, We don't know. You guys will get 1300 01:02:40.960 --> 01:02:42.800 what you get. And I think we're gonna end up 1301 01:02:42.840 --> 01:02:45.760 doing seven episodes instead of six. 1302 01:02:45.840 --> 01:02:47.599 You guys are getting a little little extra bang for 1303 01:02:47.639 --> 01:02:48.719 your buck on this one. 1304 01:02:48.679 --> 01:02:52.280 Because we have to talk about his last US Open 1305 01:02:52.639 --> 01:02:56.480 and it's actually what he opens the book with is 1306 01:02:56.679 --> 01:03:00.159 him getting ready for his last US Open match, and 1307 01:03:00.320 --> 01:03:04.400 it is terrifying. Hell yeah, like the shape he was 1308 01:03:04.519 --> 01:03:06.800 in by that point to have to just like the 1309 01:03:06.840 --> 01:03:09.039 things he had to do to just go out and 1310 01:03:09.079 --> 01:03:12.480 play tennis sound excruciating, and then he had to go 1311 01:03:12.480 --> 01:03:13.559 play tennis. 1312 01:03:13.280 --> 01:03:13.920 On top of it. 1313 01:03:13.960 --> 01:03:14.639 Pretty funny. 1314 01:03:14.840 --> 01:03:18.159 Yeah, it's good times. So I think that's our episode. 1315 01:03:18.199 --> 01:03:19.199 Sounds like asde bro. 1316 01:03:19.400 --> 01:03:21.960 We did it, Adam, we did it, We did it, 1317 01:03:22.039 --> 01:03:24.400 We did it. Yeah. Yeah, what do. 1318 01:03:24.360 --> 01:03:27.800 We have to plug before we get out of here? 1319 01:03:27.920 --> 01:03:30.840 We got a sale going on at you Don't Show 1320 01:03:31.039 --> 01:03:36.320 Dot Link Slash store. 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