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And wed be interacting. and they dont just be me, it be other people that would be around and it would be people that love him maybe talking to him and be making sure his spirits stay high so that was all. everybody just tried to take care of each other, man, i mean its hard -- >> do you think youll see pizza man again? >> i dont -- nope, nope. >> we finished our shoot shortly after we did that last interview with monigan and found out a few weeks later that maxi never returned to the prison. he...

And joke and kick it with right now. because we could be watching tv and wed be interacting. and they dont just be me, it be other people that would be around and it would be people that love him maybe talking to him and be making sure his spirits stay high so that was all. everybody just tried to take care of each other, man, i mean its hard -- >> do you think youll see pizza man again? >> i dont -- nope, nope. >> we finished our shoot shortly after we did that last interview with monigan and f...

Question mark about maxi and his health and then we had arrived one day and there was an ambulance out front and it was actually blocking our entrance into parking, into the parking lot and we found out that maxi was inside the ambulance, so once we got in to see monigan he told us he had had an event during the night and he was being rushed to the hospital. >> what was the last communication you two had? >> he told me he loved me. >> what did you say? >> i love him too. and if he die, im going ...

He was in his bunk so i got him up and he lay back in his bunk then he covered up. then he got out of his bunk and went to the restroom, came back and instead of laying back down in his bunk he sat on the floor, from his wheelchair. so when i woke up i see him sitting on the floor and i turn to him. its the floor. he think hes sitting in the wheelchair. then i realized that he done ran out of gas. aint to getting back to the bunk. so i take him to the hospital. bam. and i just hope hes all right...

Somewhere. i used to work at a pizza place. thats right. youve the pizza man sort of stuck to me. i got the same tattoo on my chest. >> how did it stick in prison? >> everybody knows me and a lot of people from my town plus it was all over the news, my story, my case, you know. >> the reason john pizzaman maxis face was all over the news was because on halloween night 1996 he murdered his boss inside the pizza parlor where they worked. >> i was mad at my boss and things went bad and he lost. he ...

Ambulance out front and it was actually blocking our entrance into parking, into the parking lot and we found out that maxi was inside the ambulance, so once we got in to see monigan he told us he had had an event during the night and he was being rushed to the hospital. >> what was the last communication you had. >> he told me he loved me. >> what did you say? >> i love him too. and if he die im going to [ bleep ] him up. he start laughing and he said, okay. hes telling me im embarrassing him i...

The cancer will spread and kill me faster. >> so what does this mean for you? >> a death sentence. >> even with death looming over him, maxi found comfort in the support and camaraderie of his fellow inmate. >> him being around us, i feel like this is what gives him hope. even if he knows hes dying, he knows that theres not much the medical people can do. >> more than anyone else, joseph monigan formed a special bond with maxi. like maxi hes also serving 60 years for murder and when the prison h...

Me the ability to clean him up from his head to his feet. >> by the time we met him, maxi had had a few recent brushes with death. the last time he fell into a coma and was rushed to an outside hospital. >> we was in church and one of the officers came in and was like, pizzaman died. so, you know, we all mourned and, you know we -- it was crazy. we like, man, well, comes to find out that there was a god in the hospital with his name that died, not him. so when he came back, he come back struttin...

Names for him and he had a great attitude about it. he would just laugh right back at them and, you know, act like it was nothing. >> oh, look at you. >> making that dude crash for the first time. >> whats going on? >> i going to my shower. whats up. coming up -- >> i woke up in the hospital. >> john maxi takes a turn for the worse. >> he was laying right here. t i? maybe new buildings? what about updated equipment? they can help, but recent research shows... ... nothing transforms schools lik...

Thats my brother. you dont see the resemblance? >> i think maxi gave monigan a reason to be. a reason to get up every morning and i think that monigan gave maxi a reason to continue living. >> his best hope of survival would be a liver transplant but that was unlikely. >> its a complicated situation. there is some concern about the continuity of a transplant program if people find out, well, youre going to give my liver to a criminal, some people would be upset about that and so theres that legi...