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Pat Laprade talks "André the Giant" documentary (Patreon Preview)

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🗓️ 20 April 2018

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Wrestling historian and author Pat Laprade joins us to discuss his role in the making of HBO Sports' André the Giant documentary. Listen to the full interview in our Patreon-exclusive review of André the Giant at www.postwrestlingcafe.com. Subscribe to POST WrestlingiTunes & iOS | Android | Google Play | Stitcher | TuneIn | Mac & PC | RSS Discuss this show at the POST Wrestling Forumhttps://forum.postwrestling.com Support our Patreon - The POST Wrestling Caféhttp://www.patreon.com/POSTwrestling Follow Our Sponsors: * Check out TickPick and use my code No promotion code/URL for a great deal: https://www.tickpick.com/ Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Hey everybody it's John Pollack and this is our sneak peek at our recently

0:07.4

released Patreon special bonus show reviewing the Andre the Giant documentary on HBO and we had a very special

0:14.9

guest on the show you may recognize him from the actual documentary he was a

0:19.1

field producer on the piece has written many books on the history of pro wrestling Pat LaProd.

0:24.6

So we wanted to give you a preview of the interview with Pat, the entire interview can be heard

0:30.4

if you go to post wrestling cafe.com sign up and you can download the entire

0:35.8

review with our thoughts on the review and then the complete interview with

0:39.8

one Pat LaProd. So Wei and I have just gone through the Andre the Giant documentary that I am assuming many of you,

0:47.1

if not all of you, have heard from, and now it's time to chat with one of the talking heads, as they will call them in the industry.

0:54.7

A field producer made it into the credits.

0:57.3

A huge part of this documentary behind the scenes.

0:59.6

He is our good friend, Pat LaProd who is joining us and Pat you've really made it now. It's a pleasure

1:05.0

that you'll still come and chat with the little people.

1:07.2

Yeah I try my best to remember where I come from.

1:11.0

Still true to your Canadian roots.

1:15.0

I want to dive right into things because

1:18.0

tell us first of all kind of how this whole ball got rolling about coming in to work on the documentary and kind of how you

1:27.8

ascended up the ladder and became a very big part of this which I thought this documentary greatly benefited

1:34.4

from having a historian such as yourself be a part of it.

1:37.3

Funny because you were kind of involved in this actually because you're the after it was announced that that the

1:45.9

documentary would be would be made you contacted me if you remember and told me that you know they should interview me and that

1:59.0

you spoke to someone you knew who was who knew someone on the production team or

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