Episode Transcript: #2036 - Kurt Angle
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The Joe Rogan Experience.
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Here we are with the greatest pro wrestling fan in the history of the world, Tony Hinchcliffe,
and the great and powerful Kurt Angle.
It's an honor, sir.
Thank you for being here, man.
Thanks for having me, Art Joe.
Dude, I've been a fan of yours for a long time.
What you did in the Olympics with a broken neck is just nothing short of insane.
How did you do that?
I didn't have a choice.
I mean, what happened was I got thrown on my head in the first round of the Olympic trials.
Pull that microphone up close to you.
There you go.
What happened was I got thrown on my head the first round of the Olympic trials,
and I broke my neck and I didn't know it, so I kept wrestling.
My arms were numb and my neck was in excruciating pain,
and I wrestled through the semis and won,
and I had to go on to the finals and wrestle, and I won there.
So I won the first round of the Olympic trials with my neck broken.