"Even people that were willing to take the trip with him, he was leaving by the side of the road, I thought."

Trying the "quote original message" feature along with this... haven't tried that before.

Bob's thought about "leaving by the side of the road" reflects my own thoughts at the time about the wrestling. Seemed like Andy would do one thing, then a different thing, and so forth... the unexpected. So then it seemed like the entire wrestling endeavor was too long, while we were waiting for another different thing! Hm, so maybe him not doing the unexpected was unexpected in itself, and therefore consistent. Still, it didn't seem to fly very well with the public.

I should point out that I misspelled Mr. Burrows' name... no "e" in it.

It was very cool to run into this show. I think I taped it via the timer and never actually watched it before. The same tape also has the original airing of the last "Cheers" episode... and also the hourlong season-ender of "Seinfeld" that aired the same evening, with the storyline about the "NBC show about nothing" Jerry and George created within the show coming to its conclusion. Hard to believe that was 12 years ago!

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"Even people that were willing to take the trip with him, he was leaving by the side of the road, I thought."

Thanks for transcribing that, Raaawb. Very nice treat for us. :)

Yehaw, Raaawb thank you!

Transcribing takes a freaking long time, too! (I STILL have not finished that hour long interview I was transcribing last week! Eeek!).

Anyway, regarding this "leaving people behind" thing... here's my opinion for what it's worth.

If Andy was doing stuff that everybody GOT, that was SAFE, he would have been Bob Saget, not Andy Kaufman. If he wasn't leaving people behind, he wouldn't have been controversial, now would he? Ideas that are ahead of their time are controversial by their very nature.

But, I just like to think that mostly, he was doing whatever he wanted. For fun.