Richard Pryor self-immolation event
also: Richard Pryor sets himself on fire
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▶ 34:20
He was demoralized when he found out that there was no way that he was ever going to be able to succeed playing tennis in college. So he's looking around for something to do. And him and a buddy. And this is around the time, for those of yo…
▶ 34:51
doing cocaine. And the thing to do at that time was take cocaine and heat it up and make crack cocaine. That's kind of what the next evolution of the drug is. And of course, we know Richard Pryor had been doing cocaine.…
▶ 35:20
And then the free base kind of cocaine, which involves, you know, heating it up with fire. And then decides he runs out of cocaine to start drinking rum. And he basically sets himself on fire. So all of that stuff's going on. And Ricky has …