Rudy

Well, anyway, this is kind of embarrassing, 750 00:43:12,631 --> 00:43:15,550 but you heard about the dance on Saturday night, right? 751 00:43:19,346 --> 00:43:21,264 -Right? -Yeah, we've heard about it. Sure. 752 00:43:21,348 --> 00:43:24,267 Okay. All right, well, you know, I was just wondering, 753 00:43:24,351 --> 00:43:25,810 do you have any plans? 754 00:43:28,313 --> 00:43:30,106 -No? 755 00:43:30,190 --> 00:43:32,275 That's great. So you're available, huh? 756 00:43:34,027 --> 00:43:36,947 -D-Bob would love to go. -Really? This is so great. 757 00:43:37,030 --> 00:43:40,325 I would love to introduce you to my roommate, Elza. 758 00:43:42,452 --> 00:43:44,871 And she's such a lovely woman. 759 00:43:44,955 --> 00:43:48,041 She did a great job 760 00:43:49,626 --> 00:43:53,004 of appearing rather challenged there. 761 00:43:53,088 --> 00:43:55,548 But she's a beautiful woman. 762 00:43:58,301 --> 00:44:01,012 They said I have a slight case of dyslexia. 763 00:44:01,096 --> 00:44:03,306 It's like when the words get all mixed up in your head... 764 00:44:03,390 --> 00:44:04,391 So we act-- 765 00:44:04,474 --> 00:44:06,309 -This was actually in the stadium. -Yep. 766 00:44:06,393 --> 00:44:10,063 This particular-- This was not a set, so we shot practical. 767 00:44:10,772 --> 00:44:12,440 -Whenever we could. -Yeah. 768 00:44:12,941 --> 00:44:14,985 Did we build any sets? I don't think we did. 769 00:44:15,068 --> 00:44:16,695 -Nope. -Yeah. 770 00:44:18,029 --> 00:44:19,990 Believe it or not, got my own home. 771 00:44:20,073 --> 00:44:22,367 That cot's for when my sciatica acts up. 772 00:44:22,450 --> 00:44:24,119 Okay, let's go to work. 773 00:44:26,037 --> 00:44:28,248 -See that hose on top of the locker? -Yeah. 774 00:44:28,331 --> 00:44:29,582 Bring that with you. 775 00:44:29,666 --> 00:44:34,170 Actually, Rudy slept in the ACC, didn't he? Or in the... 776 00:44:36,256 --> 00:44:41,177 Do you remember where it was? It wasn't in the stadium maintenance room. 777 00:44:41,261 --> 00:44:43,304 It was another place. 778 00:44:43,388 --> 00:44:45,557 It was in, um, the basketball arena. 779 00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:47,434 -Yeah. -Joyce-- Joyce Arena. 780 00:44:48,018 --> 00:44:49,019 So you're in student housing? 781 00:44:49,019 --> 00:44:49,519 So you're in student housing? 782 00:44:49,602 --> 00:44:50,729 Huh? 783 00:44:51,604 --> 00:44:54,274 Uh, no, I'm living with a friend in town. 784 00:44:54,357 --> 00:44:55,483 Where in town? 785 00:44:55,567 --> 00:44:58,319 Again, Fortune, this character, 786 00:44:58,403 --> 00:45:03,491 is a composite of two or three different characters, 787 00:45:03,575 --> 00:45:06,327 one of whom was a janitor 788 00:45:06,411 --> 00:45:09,789 who allowed him to sleep in his maintenance room 789 00:45:09,873 --> 00:45:11,249 at the Joyce Center. 790 00:45:12,083 --> 00:45:16,546 So, Rudy had a couple of helping hands along the way, 791 00:45:16,629 --> 00:45:20,091 but rather than, you know, do hand-offs, 792 00:45:20,175 --> 00:45:22,052 I decided to create one character. 793 00:45:22,135 --> 00:45:25,263 Tell them what, um, Joyce is. 794 00:45:25,346 --> 00:45:27,098 It's a basketball arena. 795 00:45:33,354 --> 00:45:34,898 -Talk about ghosts. -Yeah. 796 00:45:34,981 --> 00:45:37,317 I remember walking into this locker room the first time... 797 00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:39,569 -Oh, my God. -...and just getting chills. 798 00:45:39,652 --> 00:45:42,781 It does not look like this now, but boy, oh, boy. 799 00:45:42,864 --> 00:45:45,116 This is the way it looked. I mean, we-- 800 00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:49,162 Sure, a fresh carpet, but that's kind of it. 801 00:45:49,245 --> 00:45:50,455 "...the team's up against it 802 00:45:50,538 --> 00:45:52,874 and things are wrong and the breaks are beating the boys, 803 00:45:53,875 --> 00:45:57,170 tell them to go in there and win just one for the Gipper. 804 00:45:59,089 --> 00:46:02,967 I don't know where I'll be then, Rock, but I'll know about it 805 00:46:03,843 --> 00:46:05,220 and I'll be happy." 806 00:46:13,978 --> 00:46:15,063 The Four Horsemen. 807 00:46:16,272 --> 00:46:17,690 Knute Rockne. 808 00:46:19,442 --> 00:46:20,819 Moose Krause. 809 00:46:21,736 --> 00:46:23,238 Angelo Bertelli. 810 00:46:23,321 --> 00:46:24,739 Johnny Lujack. 811 00:46:25,240 --> 00:46:28,326 We had tremendous cooperation and help 812 00:46:28,409 --> 00:46:31,121 from people of Notre Dame, 813 00:46:32,122 --> 00:46:35,208 especially Father Beauchamp, who gave us the final permission, 814 00:46:35,291 --> 00:46:37,293 who was the president of the university then. 815 00:46:37,377 --> 00:46:41,172 When we got pushback from the athletic director, 816 00:46:41,256 --> 00:46:46,511 who could not figure out why they a