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  • 4/27/2025
In this documentary, recovering addict and amputee John Wood finds himself in a stranger-than-fiction battle to reclaim | dG1fM2RTZ01JcjgybHc
Transcript
00:00What's the problem there?
00:08I got a human foot.
00:10You have a what?
00:12A human foot.
00:14And this plumb nasty got me grossed out.
00:18I'd seen the grill and ended up buying it.
00:21And I opened the grill up.
00:23And there's a foot, you know, five toes and five toenails.
00:27I decided to keep it.
00:29The smoker grill is now a tourist attraction.
00:31I can't believe.
00:32I mean, who is this guy?
00:34That's my leg.
00:35He lost his leg three years ago.
00:36And that's just one hurdle life has thrown at him.
00:39I've been shot, run over by a state dump truck, electrocuted.
00:42I've been through a lot.
00:43An unbelievable character, isn't he?
00:45A gentleman told me today I was a household name in Hollywood, California.
00:50Everybody around here knows if it was a foot man.
00:51Some folks just call me foot for short.
00:54It is a freak show, no question.
00:56It's a funny story.
00:59But it's born of tragedy.
01:03I lost my leg in a plane crash.
01:05And I lost my father.
01:11When I was a kid, I made a wish.
01:15One day I might be a movie star.
01:17He likes the spotlight.
01:20It's all he thinks about.
01:22It's just took him over.
01:24After the crash, they send you home with careful Oxycontin and nobody says anything about the
01:28addiction.
01:29That's what about killed me.
01:31And I would have just kept on knowing what I was doing.
01:33It's really all I had was that leg.
01:35If he can hang on to this leg and keep it in this world, then that's his dad.
01:45This leg is giving him a purpose.
01:48There must have been 50 cameras clicking and flashing.
01:51None of that had ever happened before in my life.
01:53And that's something you'll never forget, you know?
01:59The battle tonight is just who does that leg belong to?
02:01I got proof, evident.
02:04He actually thought this was his big break.
02:07As bizarre as it all is, we can't move forward until there's an ending for this leg.
02:13It's a win-win-win.
02:16If you're just winning or win-winning, that's just winning or win-winning.
02:20But when you're win-win-winning, you're win-win-winning.
02:27Hi, it's Lisa.
02:28Now I've got an interesting piece, a movie retriever for you.
02:30Did you know that Jurassic Park, Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump and The Shawshank Redemption were
02:36all in theatres at the same time in October of 1994?
02:40Hmm.
02:40I wonder if it was planned that way.
02:42Now, which one's your favourite?
02:44Let us know in the comments below.
02:45And that's all I've got for you today.
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