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My name is Aurelian Smith Jr., but I
haven't been called that in years.

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My name is Jake the Snake Roberts.

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The people have grown to love this man.
He's got such a great fighting heart.

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I'm the kind of man that walks and talks
and do as I please.

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I've spent my life in the ring.

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Some people are imitators and some are
innovators. And I am an innovator.

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I'll drop you so fast that DDT, your
whole family will fall down.

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That's my hole.

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It's in my blood.

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This is the bad guy that everybody
loves.

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I am the snake, and when I bite, it's
going to be nasty.

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It's a strange thing that happens.

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You play a villain.

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Day after day, night after night. The
bad guy.

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I

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don't

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know if you have to come up with very
many villains that were as good as Jake

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Robertson.

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Fans start to hate you.

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Oh, God.

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They love to hate you.

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Me and Satan walk side by side for a
long time. Little by little, piece by

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piece. You stack it up and you give them
a nice pile.

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A thing's just to hate you for.

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I gave wrestling every damn thing I had.

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And what little bit that I didn't give
up, wrestling took that too.

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He's got to get over into the corner. I
don't think Jake knows where he is.

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I'd do anything for my kids.

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And I can't imagine a father not doing
that for your own kids.

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Knowing the hurt you've caused.

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Everybody makes mistakes.

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Jake has made probably more than his
share.

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Anger. That's your jewel.

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Full of hate.

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You could see it getting out of control.

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He smoked crack the entire drive.

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From Texas to Georgia.

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He pulled back that curtain. The real
story.

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People don't want to see that, hear
that, smell that.

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They damn sure don't want to live that.

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There's probably a lot of shame about
who his dad was.

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I can't imagine going through what he
went through and thinking that he had a

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way out.

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William Smith Jr., he's gone.

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And there ain't no damn way back.

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You're not.

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Giving me the same respect, man.

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Shut the F up!

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How many did

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you get?

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Well, you haven't caught any either.

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But I had a good... It doesn't matter
how many you missed. I had one on.

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I had one on. It rimmed out. It rimmed
out.

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It didn't rim out. It did not rim out.
It did not rim out.

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You weren't even close. It was on the
pole for 10 seconds. If it ain't in the

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boat, you didn't have a fish.

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You didn't even make it to half court.

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It's not my fault he has an undersized
pole. If I'd had a bigger pole, I would

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have probably... Oh, my God.

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The pole's fault.

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This is what life's supposed to be
about, man, when you're out with your

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and just looking up at the sky and enjoy
the water.

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And just breathe.

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Because you got to have this.

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You just work, work, work, work, work,
man.

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That's not much of a life.

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This is living here.

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Nice breeze in your face.

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You know, the last 10 years have been
wonderful.

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You know, when he was in his prime, you
know, in his career, time was going

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fast, you know.

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It's hard to get those moments.

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Our relationship is kind of like
building a house.

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Ten years ago, you started building a
foundation.

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Yeah. Putting a slab in, and we started
framing the walls, and now we have a

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house. Now we do have a house, man.

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That's why we come fishing. Now we have
something to build to.

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There you go.

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Yeah.

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Let's go, baby!

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Let's go, baby!

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Gainesville, Texas.

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It was almost like you were on the farm.
We had a little, probably a couple

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acres there that for a while I had a
horse.

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My grandmother had chickens and stuff,
and she raised chickens to sell the eggs

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and to feed us.

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There

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was no

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hustle and bustle.

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You knew everyone. Everyone knew whose
kids you were and, you know, would

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just look after you as if you were their
own.

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I played a little football.

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Wasn't that good.

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Wanted to be an architect, man. I dug
buildings, man.

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He was actually known to us as Buster.

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He was the big brother that, he was our
Greg Brady.

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Everything he did was cool.

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You know, if he picked up a guitar and
even if he couldn't play it, he was

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He played the guitar.

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So you kind of looked at him and he was
that role model,

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that big brother.

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My mother loved me in her own way. She
had a special way of loving people that

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was deep.

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And what I learned in life is this.

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You don't get to choose the way somebody
loves you.

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They love you in their own way, right or
wrong.

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And you don't get to pick your parents.

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Because if I could have picked my
parents, I would have kept my mother.

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father, go to hell.

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was a little over seven feet tall and
350 pounds.

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You know, huge, huge.

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Probably the biggest person, you know,
any of us would ever see.

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This is not somebody you're going to
talk back to.

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And not just kids, but, you know,
anyone.

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So he could be pretty overbearing.

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My father.

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There was a man that really knew how to
mold a person.

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And he molded me. He did it the right
way.

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He would give you a whipping for lying
to him.

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He'd give you a whipping whenever he
thought you needed it.

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He'd give you a whipping for making a
mistake.

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And believe me, I made my share of
mistakes.

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Growing up, I hated wrestling.

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Hated it with a passion.

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Because I felt like wrestling had
cheated me out of the father that I

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But the truth was, it wasn't wrestling
that did it, it was my father that did

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it.

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I count on one hand how many times my
dad took me fishing.

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Oh, here, let me... Here we go.

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Okay.

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I count on one hand how many times my
dad took me hunting.

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I don't need to raise that hand up
because he didn't.

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That's little boy things that you miss.

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I was the first one in my family to ever
graduate high school.

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I went to see my father because he
wasn't there for graduation, which did

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upset me because he was never there for
anything anyway.

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He didn't come to ball games. He didn't
do that stuff.

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I informed him that I'd graduated from
high school with honors and I wanted to

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go on to college and become an
architect. That was my dream.

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And what I wanted from him at that time
was just for him to love me and say,

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that's great, son.

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But instead what he said was, well, I
hope you don't want anything from me.

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I'm like, what do you mean?

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He goes, money or anything, I don't have
it to give to you.

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I'm like, you've never given me
anything. Why would I expect it now?

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And he still wouldn't say he was proud
of me.

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And I remember being so upset about
that.

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You know, why didn't he just give me a
big hug and say, I'm proud of you, son.

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And what is this architect thing? Ask me
a question about what I want to be.

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But nothing. I got nothing.

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Sometimes parents just don't measure up,
man. I mean.

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Sometimes they just can't give you what
you need, whether they want to or not.

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My father, he was the worst kind of
monster there

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is.

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His victims were little girls, even his
own.

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There's a tree in Texas called the iron
oak.

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Tangled limbs, broken, goes wherever it
wants.

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Doesn't give a damn what gets in its
way.

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Iron oaks, though, they rot from the
inside out.

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Just like my damn father.

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The story I got from my grandmother, ma
'am, was pretty ugly.

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Because I remember asking her if she had
any regrets in her life.

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And she said she only had one.

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I said, well, what was that?

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She goes, I should have killed your
father when I had the chance.

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I'm like, wow.

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Why?

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I'm trying to make a family tree, if
that's possible.

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I'm starting out with my dad.

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Matt had originally hooked up with my
grandmother, and they were dating, so to

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speak.

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She's had a little too much to drink and
passes out. He gets it with my mother,

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who's about 12 years old.

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So he just went into another room and

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raped my mother.

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12 -year -old girl, Matt.

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He was conceived by rape, that our
father

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somehow had that opportunity and, you
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her, and that's when Jake was conceived,
I guess. And then

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they got married. I don't even know.

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I don't even know how all that, you
know, went down.

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Tiny is what people call his death.
Right? Because he's seven

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foot plus.

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I mean, I came up to his elbow.

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His elbow.

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Whatever you want to call this man.

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My grandfather.

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I mean, he's a pedophile, clearly.

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He stopped being interested when...

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People got too old.

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After Paula has Jake, Jolynn, and
Richard, they divorce, and then

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Grizz comes over here to my mom, who is
Marsha,

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who at the time was probably no more
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14 or 15, had to be.

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and Mom has Mike and me.

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What makes me sick in my stomach, man,
is that he did the same thing to my

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sisters.

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He started abusing me.

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The memory of that that I have is I was
about eight years old, and

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there's no doubt in my mind that the
same thing happened to JoLynn.

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One day, my mother was out on an errand
at the store, and he happened to be home

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and told me to just come sit on his lap,
and from there, that was the first time

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he put his hands on me.

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I didn't think I'd get upset.

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And so that happened, and that

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continued for a few years.

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And that was the, wow, I think it was
the first time I got really upset

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just talking about that.

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I don't even know if I've told that
whole story.

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So many girls had their event taken.

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When I grew up, it was real different
because I

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had some issues.

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First of all, I lived with my
grandparents.

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Jake wasn't...

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primarily raised by his mother.

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You know, she didn't have the skills to
raise a child.

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No, my grandfather was a good man, but
he was an alcoholic.

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I dug a hole.

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I built a wall.

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And I learned to lie.

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You know?

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I stayed with my grandparents until I
was 12.

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That's when I chose to go with my
father.

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It didn't start right away, but within
two or three months, it began.

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This was all done by my stepmother.

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I started being molested by her.

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We'd have sex.

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And then afterwards,

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She would beat my ass, man. She would
beat me with clothes hangers,

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You know, if your father finds out about
this, he's going to kill you.

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And I was scared to death that my dad
would kill me.

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There was only about a five -year
difference between my mother and Jake.

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If something happened there, I have to
think that it would have had to have

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at the request of Jake's dad, our
father.

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I can't see my mother being an abuser.

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But it's very likely that, you know,
that's something that father might have

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wanted.

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Where does he go to get help?

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A small town.

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Had to try to figure out all on his own.

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You know, I think most of us in that
situation would have crumbled in one way

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another.

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As a kid, I don't think he ever thought
he had a chance.

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You can take an axe to an iron home.

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Waste of time.

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The roots run too deep.

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They go every direction.

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Never let go.

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I still remember that night like it was
yesterday.

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I went down to Baton Rouge, Louisiana to
see him and tell him that I was going

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to go to college and become an
architect.

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That's when my young brain, with the
help of some alcohol, come up with the

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of if you want your father to be proud,
you've got to get in that ring.

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Beat up a wrestler.

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You know what?

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You're 18 and you're bad and you can
kick ass, man. I mean, I was a big kid.

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I remember getting in the ring, man, and
hearing the fans for the first time

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cheering for me.

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Wow. What a rush that was, man. That
was, man, I felt like the king of the

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world. Come on, I'm going to kick your
ass, old man.

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He was a short little dumpy guy, man.

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He humiliated the piss out of me, man.
He twisted me up in different ways. My

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body's never been in since.

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Damn, man, it was horrible.

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I got to the locker room and my father,
you know, he's standing there and looks

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down at me and he goes, I am ashamed of
you.

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You're gutless and you'll never amount
to a damn thing.

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Jake told him, he said, I will do it.

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I went and got another side of the room
because I figured them two was fixing to

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go at it. It was just the tension was so
tight.

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I remember praying to the devil.

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You help me become the biggest, baddest
wrestler devil.

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I'll do anything you want.

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But I want to be bigger and better than
he is.

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I want to make you meet those words.

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And that's the night that I gave up on
being an architect.

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You know what's on my birth certificate
as his profession?

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Wrestling referee.

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I joke you not.

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That is on my birth certificate from
1975.

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I was so bad they made me become a
referee.

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That's how bad I was.

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I didn't go and do it the smart way of,
you know, going to a wrestling school or

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having someone train me.

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I went the most foolish way there is,
the trial and error method.

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Let's get us some action, shall we?

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Look out here to watch Jake Roberts, the
long, lean, and lanky Louisiana Lara

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Pearl. Jake Roberts is finding out right
now this is a rough and tough sport.

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This is a man's sport.

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He looks like a little boy out there
right now.

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I had no business in the ring. I was
absolutely horrible.

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Oh, he's in trouble now.

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Those reps over the trap, and that's a
lot of beef to go air freight.

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Jake the Snake is physically not who you
would picture as a pro wrestler.

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Roberts is in trouble now. Yes, he is.

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I'm afraid this is a mismatch.

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Still a place up for two years.

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Jake, he's trying to come out. Jake was
a second -generation wrestler.

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And I think that says a lot right there
is when you grow up in the business.

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You watch it all your life. You have a
better grasp of what works, what

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and how you want to do it.

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Bit by bit, I learned things.

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I picked up things.

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I used to find myself going to little
bitty towns, man.

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You know, they run once a year.

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Of course, guys today would never go to
those towns, but back then, you know,

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small promotions did their thing.

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It was really a traveling

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act constantly.

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People would jump in a car after the
matches, three or four guys get in the

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very often, you know, a case of beer in
the back seat.

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Drinking the back feet while telling
stories and making the towns, as they

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He's got Roberts down and it may be
over.

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You're in Chicago tonight and you're in
Milwaukee the next night, Green Bay the

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next night, then you drive all the way
back to Chicago.

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He can strike with the swiftness of a
rattler, there's no question about that.

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I would wake up some mornings and I'd
have to look at the nameplate on the

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to remember what.

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City I was in.

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Because it was go, go, go, go, go, go,
go. Night after night after night,

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spending more time with your coworkers
than you would ever possibly get to

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with your family.

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You reach a point in wrestling that you
get it.

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It finally clicks up here, what you're
doing.

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And once you figure it out, you realize
how beautiful it is.

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It is art.

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Big Daddy Ritter, Jake Roberts.

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Wrestlers are the greatest actors of all
time.

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Because we do it every night and we do
it absolutely perfect. If

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we don't, the band won't buy it.

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00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:19,460
I could argue that Jake the Snake's DDT
is the greatest finishing

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move of all time.

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Oh! DDT!

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DDT right there!

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00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:28,000
The DDT is number one with a bullet.

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00:25:28,820 --> 00:25:31,220
Wow, DDT! A brain buster!

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Drives that head hard to the mat.

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You just can't get up from that. It's
not easy to think up a new move in

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wrestling. And especially even back
then, like, I mean, there was guys like

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going, geez, I wish I could think up a
new move.

341
00:25:46,820 --> 00:25:47,820
Well,

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00:25:49,780 --> 00:25:55,420
I was wrestling a guy called the
Grappler, this masked devil.

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00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:59,540
And we had these little things that we'd
do to each other. And one of those

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things was I would have his head stuck
in here and I'd just be wrenching his

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neck, you know.

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00:26:05,020 --> 00:26:07,260
So it's 90.

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00:26:07,930 --> 00:26:10,910
goes to push me into the corner, and he
steps on my left foot.

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00:26:12,350 --> 00:26:15,710
And when he did, that caused me to fall
flat on my ass.

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When we fell and his head hit that mat,
people just popped. When I say popped,

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00:26:22,790 --> 00:26:25,870
that means jump out of their seats up
and down. They're screaming, yeah, man,

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00:26:26,050 --> 00:26:27,230
that's the greatest move ever.

352
00:26:29,130 --> 00:26:31,810
And they're absolutely right. It was the
greatest move ever.

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00:26:32,970 --> 00:26:34,290
If you'd seen that.

354
00:26:39,470 --> 00:26:42,930
Now here's the hard part. I've got to
come up with a cool name.

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00:26:43,590 --> 00:26:47,310
I mean, if it's not a cool name, the
whole is worthless, okay?

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00:26:48,490 --> 00:26:54,850
And I went to breakfast one morning in
Tampa, Florida, and picked up a USA

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00:26:54,850 --> 00:27:01,790
newspaper in the front page, big
letters, DDT'd, outlawed by U .S.

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00:27:04,530 --> 00:27:06,290
I looked at that and I went...

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00:27:12,590 --> 00:27:14,010
This is the most vicious hole I think
I've ever seen.

360
00:27:14,230 --> 00:27:16,270
Get back there playing cowboys and
Indians.

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00:27:16,790 --> 00:27:20,690
I'll tell you what I'm doing. I'm
dealing with 1984. When you put that DDT

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00:27:20,690 --> 00:27:24,770
them, Jordan, it's just like nuclear
holocaust coming down, man, because it's

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00:27:24,770 --> 00:27:25,770
over.

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00:27:26,890 --> 00:27:28,710
The crowd's calling for the DDT.

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00:27:29,990 --> 00:27:34,530
They would start the DDT, DDT, and then
he'd get ready and use the finger like

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he did.

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00:27:35,430 --> 00:27:39,610
It was more of a communication to make
sure the crowd was really locked in and

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involved with what he did.

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00:27:52,650 --> 00:27:54,270
Nobody gets up from there. What?

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00:27:54,730 --> 00:27:55,730
Oh, yeah.

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00:27:55,930 --> 00:28:00,030
Jake the Snake with the DDT and the
victory. Look at this crowd.

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00:28:01,090 --> 00:28:03,250
There you see the man with the DDT.

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00:28:09,470 --> 00:28:15,850
In 1986, he signed with the WWE.

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00:28:16,710 --> 00:28:18,550
Now Jake the Snake arrives.

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00:28:19,050 --> 00:28:24,820
And I think for most people, This is
when Jake the Snake became a household

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name.

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00:28:26,060 --> 00:28:27,660
Wrestling's not rocket science.

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00:28:28,060 --> 00:28:29,060
Come on.

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00:28:29,120 --> 00:28:31,600
It doesn't matter if they love you or
they hate you.

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00:28:33,820 --> 00:28:35,760
As long as they remember you.

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00:28:41,540 --> 00:28:46,500
I was wrestling in Mid -South Sports in
Louisiana and Oklahoma, Texas.

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00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:50,600
And the phone rang, and I picked it up,
and it was Vince McMahon.

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00:28:53,889 --> 00:28:57,370
And he said, can you get on a plane and
come up here? We need to talk.

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00:29:00,290 --> 00:29:01,290
Damn right.

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00:29:02,110 --> 00:29:05,610
Who's paying for the trip? Well, we'll
pay for it. Okay, no problem. I've never

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00:29:05,610 --> 00:29:07,370
had a promoter offer me a flight.

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00:29:08,890 --> 00:29:15,710
He comes in and he said, well, we're
going to dress you up in lime green or

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00:29:15,710 --> 00:29:18,650
royal purple tights, spandex.

389
00:29:20,050 --> 00:29:21,650
I didn't say anything yet.

390
00:29:22,010 --> 00:29:26,810
And he said, we want to put you in lace
-up, knee -high, snakeskin boots.

391
00:29:28,750 --> 00:29:33,850
And right before I throw the flag and
say I'm not interested in doing that,

392
00:29:34,210 --> 00:29:39,050
Vince wrote some numbers on a piece of
paper and

393
00:29:39,050 --> 00:29:42,550
gingerly slipped them over to me.

394
00:29:43,310 --> 00:29:48,450
And at the same time, he said, and carry
a large 12 -foot python.

395
00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:56,080
Me being severely scared of snakes,

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00:29:56,260 --> 00:30:02,280
that fear went out the window when I
seen

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00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:04,940
the zeros on that piece of paper.

398
00:30:08,780 --> 00:30:12,580
I'd never seen that many zeros on a
check towards me.

399
00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:17,660
And I was blown away to the point.

400
00:30:18,330 --> 00:30:21,770
that I immediately took his bad idea and
made sense of it.

401
00:30:23,150 --> 00:30:26,550
I mean, if you're going to go with the
name Jake the Snake, you've got to

402
00:30:26,550 --> 00:30:30,150
Mr. McMahon is going to put a snake in
your hand.

403
00:30:33,150 --> 00:30:39,110
From Stone Mountain, Georgia, Jake the
Snake Roberts.

404
00:30:41,610 --> 00:30:45,790
Jake the Snake Roberts making his debut
here this week in the World Wrestling

405
00:30:45,790 --> 00:30:46,790
Federation.

406
00:30:47,340 --> 00:30:48,600
We know what's in the bag.

407
00:30:49,140 --> 00:30:53,740
The only time I'm not afraid of those
damn snakes is when the bell rings.

408
00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:58,920
Jake the Snake Roberts, newcomer here to
the World Wrestling Federation, but

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00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:00,440
certainly not to the squared circle.

410
00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:04,680
Oh, what a slap. He just drove him into
the camera. This man is known worldwide.

411
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:06,320
Tough competitor.

412
00:31:06,460 --> 00:31:09,800
He is going to be a force to reckon with
here at the World Wrestling Federation.

413
00:31:10,180 --> 00:31:12,820
There's that patented move by the snake
called the TDP.

414
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:16,680
Look at him slithering over towards that
bag.

415
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:40,240
The snake was incredible.

416
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:41,440
It was shocking.

417
00:31:42,060 --> 00:31:43,200
It was memorable.

418
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:45,560
You couldn't take your eyes off of it.

419
00:31:46,220 --> 00:31:47,260
It's legitimately...

420
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:51,580
One of the absolute best gimmicks ever
in pro wrestling.

421
00:31:54,460 --> 00:31:59,140
If you keep playing with snakes, you got
to expect one thing.

422
00:31:59,920 --> 00:32:01,040
You're going to get bit.

423
00:32:02,060 --> 00:32:04,440
Give me a break, referee. Don't let him
do that.

424
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:07,320
No wonder they call him Jake the Snake
Robert.

425
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:15,360
He literally would smother people and
strangle them with a snake, with a

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00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:16,580
on national TV.

427
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:21,200
This thing weighed probably almost 200
pounds.

428
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:26,920
And Jake would just pick that thing up
and sling it and hit you. I mean, it's

429
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:29,180
like hitting you with a baseball bat
with a snake.

430
00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:33,280
The first time he got Ricky the Dragon's
theme boat was a big one.

431
00:32:34,420 --> 00:32:38,880
Why do I put the snake across somebody's
body and let him crawl?

432
00:32:40,620 --> 00:32:42,640
I get off on it, don't you?

433
00:32:43,770 --> 00:32:44,729
Come on, referee.

434
00:32:44,730 --> 00:32:48,610
This is despicable. He just loves it.
Look at the snake going to him.

435
00:32:48,850 --> 00:32:53,530
It becomes a big part of what people
want to see. I mean, they would go

436
00:32:55,650 --> 00:32:58,850
They'd go crazy just seeing the bag in
the corner.

437
00:32:59,730 --> 00:33:01,070
Oh, my gosh.

438
00:33:01,330 --> 00:33:03,170
Trying to get out of the bag already.

439
00:33:03,750 --> 00:33:07,370
At WrestleMania II, he had a dude
foaming at the mouth.

440
00:33:07,690 --> 00:33:10,330
Imagine the constricting of the snake.
Oh, my God.

441
00:33:13,450 --> 00:33:19,150
I really tried to stay away from the
snake because, you know, Jake would

442
00:33:19,150 --> 00:33:21,510
talk to the snake and kiss the snake.

443
00:33:24,610 --> 00:33:26,590
Andre was scared to death of the snake.

444
00:33:26,790 --> 00:33:29,350
Andre the giant looks like he's
terrified of that snake.

445
00:33:29,650 --> 00:33:31,390
No, no snake.

446
00:33:31,790 --> 00:33:32,549
Look at this.

447
00:33:32,550 --> 00:33:33,910
Andre backing off.

448
00:33:34,650 --> 00:33:38,090
Andre had to work with him. It was kind
of funny to watch because he was scared

449
00:33:38,090 --> 00:33:39,090
to death of the snake.

450
00:33:40,170 --> 00:33:41,089
Oh, no.

451
00:33:41,090 --> 00:33:42,310
They're calling on the giant.

452
00:33:43,500 --> 00:33:44,880
It's choking Andre the Giant.

453
00:33:45,820 --> 00:33:49,280
Andre going down. And Jake putting
Damien all over him.

454
00:33:49,620 --> 00:33:51,040
Andre cutting his chest.

455
00:33:52,020 --> 00:33:53,420
Andre is just terrified.

456
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:55,340
He's terrified of this thing.

457
00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:57,980
Jake to Jake Roberts.

458
00:33:58,220 --> 00:34:01,660
And Damien has really done a job on
Andre the Giant.

459
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:05,280
And he cut his cheek to Jake Roberts.

460
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:10,980
What do you think of this matchup here?

461
00:34:11,199 --> 00:34:14,260
What do you think of this matchup? He's
the best. Jake's the best.

462
00:34:14,500 --> 00:34:15,500
Jake's the best.

463
00:34:15,580 --> 00:34:18,739
Yeah, I guess he's going to say it all.
As you can see, not a bad seat in the

464
00:34:18,739 --> 00:34:20,260
house. Back to you, gorilla.

465
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:24,760
Everybody hated that snake.

466
00:34:26,060 --> 00:34:28,380
Jake would just dump it on the floor in
the shower.

467
00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:33,580
People would go in the shower and the
snake would just be there. Guys would

468
00:34:33,580 --> 00:34:35,719
freak out and come running out of the
shower naked.

469
00:34:36,659 --> 00:34:39,739
Then Jake would have a heck of a time
trying to get the snake in the bag after

470
00:34:39,739 --> 00:34:40,739
that.

471
00:34:41,029 --> 00:34:45,750
Unfortunately, from the locker room, I
would have to put it in a bag and put it

472
00:34:45,750 --> 00:34:49,370
in a trunk and then carry it to the car.
Then once I got to the hotel, I had to

473
00:34:49,370 --> 00:34:55,449
put it in the bathroom, a little water
in the tub, and hope like hell he

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00:34:55,449 --> 00:34:59,710
break the sink off the wall or the
toilet off the floor, which they've

475
00:35:03,790 --> 00:35:06,690
He's lucky he's got Damien, because
that's probably the only friend this man

476
00:35:06,690 --> 00:35:07,690
has.

477
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:11,960
Every good wrestler knows how to walk
the walk.

478
00:35:12,740 --> 00:35:15,580
Well, if they didn't, they wouldn't be
allowed to get the damn ring.

479
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:18,040
Great wrestlers.

480
00:35:18,820 --> 00:35:20,440
Well, they answer the real question.

481
00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:21,840
Can you talk the talk?

482
00:35:22,460 --> 00:35:23,920
You want to play something real?

483
00:35:24,540 --> 00:35:26,140
Then you get real close and listen.

484
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:33,240
Good guys, bad guys.

485
00:35:33,740 --> 00:35:35,340
And wrestling were one or the other.

486
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:37,600
I was both.

487
00:35:39,370 --> 00:35:43,610
You know, it's kind of like that nursery
rhyme, you know, when I was bad, I was

488
00:35:43,610 --> 00:35:44,610
very, very bad.

489
00:35:45,810 --> 00:35:49,210
When I was good, I was still bad.

490
00:35:49,710 --> 00:35:50,770
Very, very bad.

491
00:35:58,650 --> 00:36:02,190
You know, this Jake Roberts is a very
cruel man. I doubt if this man even has

492
00:36:02,190 --> 00:36:06,470
any feelings. My goodness, this man
causes all kinds of controversy every

493
00:36:06,470 --> 00:36:07,149
he goes.

494
00:36:07,150 --> 00:36:08,150
Jake, listening.

495
00:36:10,990 --> 00:36:15,270
He was a storyteller.

496
00:36:15,610 --> 00:36:22,290
And I think that's so valuable to being
a good performer is being a good

497
00:36:22,290 --> 00:36:23,290
storyteller.

498
00:36:24,970 --> 00:36:31,630
And Jake always told stories. And I
think he was one of the greatest at it.

499
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:41,460
Jake was such a master villain.

500
00:36:42,740 --> 00:36:46,260
You know, I always think of the guy
tying the girl up on the railroad

501
00:36:46,260 --> 00:36:48,440
think of a guy who looks like something
like Jake Roberts.

502
00:36:49,740 --> 00:36:53,420
The dirty little mustache and the creepy
little eyebrows.

503
00:36:54,740 --> 00:36:58,260
And I don't know if you could come up
with very many villains in history that

504
00:36:58,260 --> 00:37:02,580
were as good as Jake Roberts. And look
at that. Oh, can you believe that? You

505
00:37:02,580 --> 00:37:04,840
get Jake to step up. He is vicious.

506
00:37:08,210 --> 00:37:12,550
Man, there is nothing better than
getting the reaction you want from the

507
00:37:12,550 --> 00:37:15,970
when you do the simplest of things or
you do the meanest of things.

508
00:37:20,650 --> 00:37:21,650
Teasing them.

509
00:37:24,010 --> 00:37:27,270
I don't want to do that. Oh, you son of
a bitch.

510
00:37:27,930 --> 00:37:32,490
They get so pissed off at me, man, for
not doing it because I teased them.

511
00:37:33,050 --> 00:37:36,590
You know, if you're going to offer it to
somebody, you got to give it to them.

512
00:37:37,759 --> 00:37:41,020
So for me to pull it away and not do it
was a heel move.

513
00:37:42,940 --> 00:37:43,940
I cheated him.

514
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:45,760
I robbed him of their moment.

515
00:37:47,220 --> 00:37:49,080
You hate the bad guy.

516
00:37:49,380 --> 00:37:51,120
You love the good guy.

517
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:56,640
Jake actually redefined that. You know,
Jake, he likes to turn it into a fight,

518
00:37:56,680 --> 00:38:00,060
doesn't he? You know, he's got a lot of
good natural wrestling ability, but the

519
00:38:00,060 --> 00:38:01,060
guy likes to fight.

520
00:38:08,590 --> 00:38:11,610
Jake is the first anti -hero.

521
00:38:15,530 --> 00:38:18,730
Stone Cold Steve Austin is an anti
-hero.

522
00:38:20,050 --> 00:38:22,870
Diamond Dallas Page was an anti -hero.

523
00:38:23,270 --> 00:38:26,990
You know, everybody's got something in
their bag from Jake.

524
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:34,700
I've got numbness in my fingers, but the
stiffness and the numbness and the

525
00:38:34,700 --> 00:38:41,180
weakness are nothing compared to the
hatred that sits behind these cold eyes,

526
00:38:41,180 --> 00:38:48,040
man, or the fire that spews ashes

527
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:53,120
out of my brain each and every time I
think of you. I don't think anyone ever

528
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:57,920
has been better at talking on a
microphone in pro wrestling than Jake

529
00:38:57,920 --> 00:38:58,920
Roberts.

530
00:38:59,020 --> 00:39:02,040
You're bringing Elizabeth to the ring to
watch what you're going to do to me.

531
00:39:03,100 --> 00:39:04,200
Think about this.

532
00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:10,160
When you look down at your wife, after
I've done what I'm going to do, what are

533
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:11,160
you going to do?

534
00:39:11,420 --> 00:39:12,420
Wake her up.

535
00:39:12,820 --> 00:39:16,760
Princess, the glass slipper doesn't fit
this time.

536
00:39:19,220 --> 00:39:20,280
It's all his eyes.

537
00:39:20,980 --> 00:39:23,500
It's just the way Jake looks at the
camera.

538
00:39:24,780 --> 00:39:26,500
Jake the Snake was the first...

539
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:33,540
wrestler i ever saw who didn't need to
yell i'm not your average local yokel

540
00:39:33,540 --> 00:39:38,860
from kmart no i'm a little bit different
yeah i think i see things that people

541
00:39:38,860 --> 00:39:45,440
don't normally see the little things
that mean so much you know how to look

542
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:52,080
camera and glare or smile you see i've
got something you can't handle

543
00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:53,520
you or anybody else

544
00:39:55,770 --> 00:39:58,490
It's DDT. So what are you going to do,
snowman?

545
00:39:58,950 --> 00:40:04,750
Melt. I learned that as a kid, how to
manipulate emotions by your facial

546
00:40:04,750 --> 00:40:05,750
expressions.

547
00:40:06,710 --> 00:40:12,830
Because there were lots of times that I
had to spin the wheel to keep from being

548
00:40:12,830 --> 00:40:16,330
abused. So I learned to lie at a very
young age.

549
00:40:16,950 --> 00:40:20,350
I know there's only one way to serve up
revenge, brother. Everybody's a fine

550
00:40:20,350 --> 00:40:22,950
cook. Mama can make grits and mama can
make biscuits and gravy.

551
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:26,500
But the only way you can serve up
revenge is to serve it cold.

552
00:40:26,740 --> 00:40:33,540
I envied him. Like, I really wished I
had that ability to turn it off

553
00:40:33,540 --> 00:40:38,640
and on like he did, to become this,
morph into this character.

554
00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:44,500
Good guy or bad guy. Anything that I do
is your fault.

555
00:40:44,980 --> 00:40:46,020
Snake in the corner?

556
00:40:47,300 --> 00:40:48,300
Trust me.

557
00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:50,520
Trust me.

558
00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:52,880
We had a different cadence.

559
00:40:53,450 --> 00:40:57,370
You know, it was almost like from the
steep to him that he would almost

560
00:40:57,370 --> 00:40:58,370
hypnotize people.

561
00:40:58,650 --> 00:40:59,730
It's pretty simple to me.

562
00:41:00,850 --> 00:41:03,290
Some people claim to be things that
they're not.

563
00:41:04,270 --> 00:41:08,390
Me, I've always claimed to be a snake. I
never said I could walk on water. I

564
00:41:08,390 --> 00:41:12,210
never said that I could part the sea. I
never said I could feed the masses with

565
00:41:12,210 --> 00:41:14,170
a loaf of bread. But then again, I never
tried.

566
00:41:14,510 --> 00:41:20,110
I think the biggest thing that came from
Jake was just how evil and how sinister

567
00:41:20,110 --> 00:41:21,110
he was.

568
00:41:21,620 --> 00:41:25,600
You know, what a wicked web we can weave
when first we labor to deceive. Now,

569
00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:26,860
what I'm telling you is this.

570
00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:31,540
I've always said I was on the other side
of the fence. And I ask you, oh, yeah,

571
00:41:31,580 --> 00:41:33,340
it's where you were at, too. You're
right with me.

572
00:41:33,660 --> 00:41:37,020
You can't ride the edge, brother, like I
can. That razor's too sharp for you.

573
00:41:37,720 --> 00:41:41,420
So you think about this. WrestleMania,
I'm going to get what I want.

574
00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:45,720
I was in a room watching Jake Roberts do
promos in front of Vince McMahon.

575
00:41:46,740 --> 00:41:47,860
And I can remember Vince.

576
00:41:48,410 --> 00:41:51,390
Just going crazy at how good Jake's
promos were.

577
00:41:53,310 --> 00:41:58,850
Million -dollar man, you stood up so
proud and you told me, if you want that

578
00:41:58,850 --> 00:42:02,210
million -dollar belt, Jake the Snake
Roberts, you've got to come and get it.

579
00:42:02,930 --> 00:42:05,210
Charisma, you can't teach it to anybody.

580
00:42:05,610 --> 00:42:07,410
You either have it or you don't.

581
00:42:07,710 --> 00:42:11,330
He's got that savvy. I don't know how to
put it in any other term.

582
00:42:11,590 --> 00:42:16,110
You see, Damien and I don't forget. We
remember all the times you made people

583
00:42:16,110 --> 00:42:17,310
grovel for your money.

584
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:20,780
These were people far less fortunate
than you.

585
00:42:21,100 --> 00:42:23,380
People who could use your money for
essentials.

586
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:26,900
He made you feel when he was cutting a
promo.

587
00:42:27,900 --> 00:42:29,920
He didn't make you feel like he was
talking to Mean Gene.

588
00:42:30,700 --> 00:42:32,340
He made you feel like he was talking to
you.

589
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:37,620
This time, you'll be the one that's
humbled. This time, you'll be the one

590
00:42:37,620 --> 00:42:42,340
humiliated. And this time, you will be
the one that grovels for the money.

591
00:42:42,660 --> 00:42:43,780
And how appropriate.

592
00:42:45,130 --> 00:42:47,930
that the money you grovel for is your
very own.

593
00:42:48,330 --> 00:42:55,190
A victim of your own greed, wallowing in
the muck of

594
00:42:55,190 --> 00:42:56,190
avarice.

595
00:42:58,630 --> 00:43:00,430
Longfellow couldn't have said it better.

596
00:43:06,950 --> 00:43:09,090
All the glitters is not gold.

597
00:43:10,070 --> 00:43:12,670
Shakespeare wrote that. Oh, how about
that?

598
00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:15,040
He was a smart guy.

599
00:43:16,860 --> 00:43:19,620
I saw my dad more on television than I
did in person.

600
00:43:21,100 --> 00:43:23,960
Can you imagine what that's like?

601
00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:26,420
Do you know how mortifying that is?

602
00:43:26,740 --> 00:43:33,560
We knew what our dad did. We knew kind
of the career path he chose, but we

603
00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:35,240
didn't really ever know where he was.

604
00:43:36,180 --> 00:43:41,380
I didn't see him for years, and
especially when he first started making

605
00:43:41,380 --> 00:43:42,328
for himself.

606
00:43:42,330 --> 00:43:44,790
I don't even know if he knew that I was
even training.

607
00:43:45,090 --> 00:43:50,350
It wasn't the typical brother -sister
family kumbaya, you know.

608
00:43:51,350 --> 00:43:56,670
We just didn't, there was no family
support.

609
00:43:58,070 --> 00:44:04,950
Most people are parents when their
children are young. You know, my dad

610
00:44:04,950 --> 00:44:07,810
He didn't parent when I was young. He
was not around.

611
00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:13,540
So my parents weren't around each other.

612
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:16,000
They divorced when I was in the second
grade.

613
00:44:16,740 --> 00:44:20,700
See, there's a price you pay for being a
wrestler.

614
00:44:21,140 --> 00:44:27,860
But Jake did not see it wasn't a life. I
thought I was, I'm this big star

615
00:44:27,860 --> 00:44:31,180
now. I'm going to make my kids happy.
Everybody's going to love me.

616
00:44:31,180 --> 00:44:32,180
going to be fine.

617
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:37,800
How foolish are we?

618
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:44,540
You see, that dream is beautiful, man,
until somebody takes it away from you.

619
00:44:52,720 --> 00:44:55,580
You know, if you haven't got a story,
you ain't got it.

620
00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:10,360
Come on, face it. Great rivalry? That
makes a great story.

621
00:45:13,940 --> 00:45:16,880
Jake the Snake Roberts and Alice Cooper.

622
00:45:17,180 --> 00:45:20,440
Boy, has this guy got a score to set. He
broke his guitar.

623
00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:22,720
We haven't seen the last of this
confrontation.

624
00:45:24,720 --> 00:45:25,840
David Goliath?

625
00:45:27,140 --> 00:45:28,640
Apollo Creed Rocky?

626
00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:31,660
You've got to be fighting something.

627
00:45:33,540 --> 00:45:37,600
Ricky Steamboat, you're going to be the
first big test for Jake the Snake and

628
00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:38,600
his career tonight.

629
00:45:38,660 --> 00:45:42,800
I've seen too many good wrestlers go
down and be humiliated by this man

630
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:46,220
that snake across the body. I won't
tolerate that, Jake Roberts.

631
00:45:46,460 --> 00:45:49,420
Back with more Saturday Night's Main
Event, the match we have anticipated

632
00:45:49,420 --> 00:45:54,240
up now. Ricky the Dragon Steamboat,
scoring up against the undefeated Jake

633
00:45:54,240 --> 00:45:55,098
Snake Roberts.

634
00:45:55,100 --> 00:46:01,120
They came to me and they said, Jake, we
want you to DDT Steamboat on the floor.

635
00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:02,940
And I'm like, oh.

636
00:46:03,180 --> 00:46:04,180
I can't do that.

637
00:46:04,220 --> 00:46:07,520
Ricky the Dragon Steamboat, one of the
most popular athletes in the World

638
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:09,400
Wrestling Federation today, saying
hello.

639
00:46:09,760 --> 00:46:10,820
Off the rope now.

640
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:12,820
What a clothesline.

641
00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:15,000
They're like, why not?

642
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:17,080
I said, because if I do it, I'll kill
him.

643
00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:20,460
The Ricky Steamboat match was brutal.

644
00:46:21,060 --> 00:46:24,900
This isn't the modern era outside the
ring.

645
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:28,240
This is a cement floor of an arena.

646
00:46:28,720 --> 00:46:30,120
Do you understand death?

647
00:46:31,020 --> 00:46:32,380
This will kill him.

648
00:46:34,020 --> 00:46:37,420
Well, Steamboat came to me. He's like,
Jake, do it to me.

649
00:46:37,900 --> 00:46:39,340
I can protect myself.

650
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:40,840
I know what to do.

651
00:46:41,060 --> 00:46:42,300
I said, Ricky, you don't.

652
00:46:42,940 --> 00:46:45,260
I was right. He damn near killed him.

653
00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:49,360
It

654
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:57,520
sounded

655
00:46:57,520 --> 00:47:00,420
like a hand grenade went off in my
brain. It exploded.

656
00:47:06,860 --> 00:47:08,740
At the time, I thought he was dead.

657
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:11,020
It was horrifying, man.

658
00:47:11,820 --> 00:47:14,060
Ricky Steamboat back into the ring.

659
00:47:15,140 --> 00:47:16,900
I think the dragon is out.

660
00:47:20,060 --> 00:47:22,740
Swelled up. Had a bad concussion.

661
00:47:22,980 --> 00:47:24,380
Was taken to the hospital.

662
00:47:25,180 --> 00:47:27,200
The whole side of my face blew up.

663
00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:30,120
Ricky Steamboat still unconscious.

664
00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:33,220
That DDT on the outside of the ring.

665
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:38,760
was the first time that you really saw
just how vicious Jake the Snake could

666
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:45,520
As cold as a razor blade, as tight as a
tourniquet, like the skin on a dying

667
00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:50,140
man. Randy Savage, the last time I seen
you, you were flailing like some

668
00:47:50,140 --> 00:47:51,140
helpless child.

669
00:47:51,580 --> 00:47:52,860
You think that you're Shakespeare.

670
00:47:53,300 --> 00:47:55,860
You think that you're so eloquent when
you talk.

671
00:47:56,490 --> 00:48:00,510
Snake man, but I don't like anything
about you. Look at that snake eyes and

672
00:48:00,510 --> 00:48:03,850
you'll see something so cold and so
devilish and so deliberate.

673
00:48:04,090 --> 00:48:08,230
Yes, he takes care of what he has to,
does what he has to, just like me.

674
00:48:27,970 --> 00:48:28,970
Mind blown.

675
00:48:32,690 --> 00:48:39,690
I remember before Randy agreed

676
00:48:39,690 --> 00:48:42,730
to do it, that the Cobra bite Jake
first.

677
00:48:46,970 --> 00:48:48,610
I let the snake bite me.

678
00:48:49,070 --> 00:48:53,070
But when it is turn came up, boy, did he
light him up.

679
00:48:54,990 --> 00:48:58,590
I got really freaked out because it was
only supposed to be for a couple

680
00:48:58,590 --> 00:48:59,590
seconds.

681
00:48:59,730 --> 00:49:04,270
And then Jake, I don't know if he didn't
want to tear Randy's arm apart or if he

682
00:49:04,270 --> 00:49:06,590
had some problems with the snake. The
snake would not release.

683
00:49:08,790 --> 00:49:13,190
Oh, my God.

684
00:49:13,470 --> 00:49:14,670
My favorite time.

685
00:49:31,790 --> 00:49:38,570
This allowed Jake to really thrive as
the monster that he could be.

686
00:49:38,710 --> 00:49:44,970
It was pretty powerful TV. And then
people started cheering the bad guy.

687
00:49:44,970 --> 00:49:46,690
started cheering the monster, right?

688
00:49:46,950 --> 00:49:51,530
This indestructible force that just
changed the way people think about what

689
00:49:51,530 --> 00:49:52,670
guys and bad guys are.

690
00:49:52,890 --> 00:49:59,010
Just who in the hell do you think you
are and whose side are you on?

691
00:49:59,940 --> 00:50:00,980
not yours.

692
00:50:04,240 --> 00:50:05,680
I owe you one.

693
00:50:06,080 --> 00:50:07,740
Don't turn your back on me.

694
00:50:09,200 --> 00:50:10,200
Oh, wait a minute.

695
00:50:10,980 --> 00:50:14,640
His hand, his hand is caught in the end
of that coffin.

696
00:50:14,900 --> 00:50:15,900
Wait a minute.

697
00:50:18,160 --> 00:50:25,020
He beats the crap out of me

698
00:50:25,020 --> 00:50:30,610
with a chair, but I keep coming, right?
I just, Keep going after him.

699
00:50:32,050 --> 00:50:37,130
Jake was so brilliant with his
reactions. What have I got myself into

700
00:50:39,550 --> 00:50:46,450
It just set the tone for, wow, what's
going

701
00:50:46,450 --> 00:50:48,830
to happen when Undertaker gets his
revenge?

702
00:50:54,750 --> 00:50:58,710
WrestleMania 8, Indianapolis, the
Hoosier Dome. Let me tell you something,

703
00:50:59,230 --> 00:51:02,150
Undertaker. Claim to be from the dark
side, I'm going to show you what the

704
00:51:02,150 --> 00:51:03,250
devil's all about, my man.

705
00:51:03,530 --> 00:51:06,530
Me and Satan walked side by side for a
long time.

706
00:51:06,770 --> 00:51:08,010
Shared the same thoughts.

707
00:51:08,870 --> 00:51:10,090
Shared the same souls.

708
00:51:11,810 --> 00:51:14,710
A very cunning, a very dangerous
individual.

709
00:51:15,790 --> 00:51:18,390
But he may just have dug his own grave.

710
00:51:18,810 --> 00:51:21,610
The State Rumor!

711
00:51:40,040 --> 00:51:45,180
By the time you get to WrestleMania
VIII, Undertaker is truly getting to his

712
00:51:45,180 --> 00:51:47,780
prime as an absolute dominant force.

713
00:51:51,960 --> 00:51:57,980
The fact

714
00:51:57,980 --> 00:52:04,880
that Jake was a viable opponent for
Undertaker at

715
00:52:04,880 --> 00:52:08,400
WrestleMania, that says a lot in and of
itself.

716
00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:27,840
That was the first time that I had
tombstoned, you know, anyone really

717
00:52:27,840 --> 00:52:28,840
of the ring.

718
00:52:32,700 --> 00:52:33,340
It

719
00:52:33,340 --> 00:52:40,560
was

720
00:52:40,560 --> 00:52:46,460
kind of an exclamation point because
Jake went away after, you know, after

721
00:52:46,460 --> 00:52:47,460
WrestleMania.

722
00:52:58,350 --> 00:53:04,910
That was actually the end. That was
Jake's final story in the WWE for a very

723
00:53:04,910 --> 00:53:05,910
long time.

724
00:53:07,850 --> 00:53:14,150
It was a really hard time for me, the
show, because my

725
00:53:14,150 --> 00:53:18,030
life as I knew it was about to end.

726
00:53:19,950 --> 00:53:23,390
You could kind of see it getting out of
control.

727
00:53:24,310 --> 00:53:30,890
You know, before he left, you could tell
that it was becoming, the outer ring

728
00:53:30,890 --> 00:53:34,770
stuff was becoming a little more
important than the in -ring.

729
00:53:36,850 --> 00:53:40,050
I went off the deep end, you know.

730
00:53:41,590 --> 00:53:43,650
Idle hands, the devil's playground.

731
00:53:47,390 --> 00:53:51,810
I spun out of control for the next 15,
20 years.

732
00:54:03,500 --> 00:54:08,440
to talk about people that have reached
the pinnacle of success in their own

733
00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:09,440
sports.

734
00:54:10,400 --> 00:54:11,660
But what do they do?

735
00:54:12,920 --> 00:54:18,660
What do they do? A moment's weakness and
they take the devil's powder and they

736
00:54:18,660 --> 00:54:22,560
run it up their nose. They call it
cocaine, say it's a good time and their

737
00:54:22,560 --> 00:54:23,560
careers are gone.

738
00:54:33,520 --> 00:54:40,300
All addiction is, is when you're able to
be satisfied in life

739
00:54:40,300 --> 00:54:44,080
with a drug or a drink and nothing else.

740
00:54:45,620 --> 00:54:46,720
That's all I cared about.

741
00:54:47,540 --> 00:54:49,120
How much coke did I have?

742
00:54:50,440 --> 00:54:55,220
Because when I ran out of dope,
everything else was gone.

743
00:54:56,120 --> 00:54:57,120
I was gone.

744
00:55:01,580 --> 00:55:03,740
He'd been wrestling since he was, you
know, 20.

745
00:55:04,540 --> 00:55:06,440
So his body was hurting.

746
00:55:07,240 --> 00:55:12,920
And you got to try to kill the pain. And
he made a lot of choices that were not

747
00:55:12,920 --> 00:55:14,000
good choices.

748
00:55:16,900 --> 00:55:23,020
And we were out there 25, 26 days a
month, man. At least,

749
00:55:23,180 --> 00:55:29,080
at least, when I came off the road, I
was so freaking beat up.

750
00:55:30,160 --> 00:55:33,980
I barely had time to wash my clothes and
repack them and take off again.

751
00:55:39,820 --> 00:55:41,960
I spent a lot of time with Jake.

752
00:55:43,320 --> 00:55:46,480
And I got to see some of that firsthand.

753
00:55:47,620 --> 00:55:51,660
You know, he would stay up all night and
party and do whatever.

754
00:55:53,660 --> 00:55:56,500
At the point where he did become more
famous.

755
00:55:57,000 --> 00:56:01,880
Certainly, and more successful than our
father.

756
00:56:02,640 --> 00:56:06,400
He was like a tornado. He just spun
right out of control.

757
00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:13,000
People want to be around you, and they
want you to come to their bars, and they

758
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:18,720
want you to sell all of these things
that were Jake's demon.

759
00:56:18,960 --> 00:56:22,600
People are just presenting it to him.

760
00:56:29,360 --> 00:56:35,640
In 1993, I'd just graduated from high
school, and he

761
00:56:35,640 --> 00:56:42,640
was sober, and he was making it work in
his second

762
00:56:42,640 --> 00:56:43,640
family.

763
00:56:45,160 --> 00:56:50,400
And I packed everything and moved to
Georgia for the first time to go to

764
00:56:50,400 --> 00:56:51,400
college.

765
00:56:52,300 --> 00:56:55,400
He talked to my mom. We packed
everything up.

766
00:56:56,970 --> 00:56:59,610
and took the risk because he was my dad.

767
00:57:02,410 --> 00:57:08,390
And so he smoked crack the entire

768
00:57:08,390 --> 00:57:14,530
drive from Texas to Georgia.

769
00:57:16,230 --> 00:57:17,270
I drove.

770
00:57:18,170 --> 00:57:19,730
He smoked crack.

771
00:57:21,030 --> 00:57:23,570
Because when he drove and smoked crack,

772
00:57:24,910 --> 00:57:26,930
I was terrified for my life.

773
00:57:32,990 --> 00:57:38,610
Growing up, I always swore that I would
never, ever treat my children the way my

774
00:57:38,610 --> 00:57:39,610
father treated me.

775
00:57:41,350 --> 00:57:44,590
I swore that up and down a million
times.

776
00:57:48,050 --> 00:57:49,450
And what did I do?

777
00:57:54,480 --> 00:57:56,240
I wasn't there for my children either.

778
00:57:56,600 --> 00:58:01,660
During the time of our teen years and on
towards adulthood,

779
00:58:02,300 --> 00:58:06,340
we didn't see him alive.

780
00:58:06,820 --> 00:58:08,340
He was an absentee father.

781
00:58:09,520 --> 00:58:15,380
He was a dad that everyone wanted to
have but didn't know what that meant and

782
00:58:15,380 --> 00:58:16,380
what it looked like.

783
00:58:16,760 --> 00:58:21,540
Those are the darkest moments of my life
because of him not being there.

784
00:58:23,770 --> 00:58:28,970
Being an absentee father really has an
impact on you when you're trying to

785
00:58:28,970 --> 00:58:29,970
figure out who you are.

786
00:58:32,430 --> 00:58:34,790
You know, as a kid, you still just want
your father's love.

787
00:58:36,470 --> 00:58:42,270
Too busy being a star

788
00:58:42,270 --> 00:58:46,330
or a drunk or a drug addict.

789
00:58:49,070 --> 00:58:50,070
Wasn't there.

790
00:58:52,090 --> 00:58:53,090
It's hard.

791
00:58:56,190 --> 00:58:57,190
It's real hard.

792
00:58:59,170 --> 00:59:01,970
Because I do anything for my kids.

793
00:59:03,890 --> 00:59:07,470
And I can't imagine the father not doing
that for your own kids.

794
00:59:09,750 --> 00:59:11,490
Knowing the hurt you've caused them.

795
00:59:12,190 --> 00:59:13,950
Some of the pain that they live with.

796
00:59:18,230 --> 00:59:22,190
So for that, you know, I don't
understand. I never will.

797
00:59:30,220 --> 00:59:36,520
In 1996, I came back to the WWE briefly.
I was actually being given the spot I'd

798
00:59:36,520 --> 00:59:40,540
asked for, that I would be part of the
booking committee and writing.

799
00:59:41,300 --> 00:59:43,700
And it was a great thing.

800
00:59:44,180 --> 00:59:48,380
The most important thing to Jake Roberts
today is giving glory to God.

801
00:59:51,280 --> 00:59:52,280
Because...

802
00:59:53,410 --> 00:59:58,230
Without the blood of the lamb that was
put on me by gift from Jesus of victory

803
00:59:58,230 --> 01:00:01,770
so many years ago, I would not be
standing here today.

804
01:00:03,730 --> 01:00:08,210
Jake came back in 1996 as a born -again
Christian because he was born again.

805
01:00:08,690 --> 01:00:13,190
And he had found sobriety and he had
found God. And he was going around the

806
01:00:13,190 --> 01:00:16,770
country talking about it. And this
really was his personality.

807
01:00:17,210 --> 01:00:19,710
No, the snake's not named Damien no
more.

808
01:00:20,270 --> 01:00:22,870
This is revelations. This is the truth.

809
01:00:23,530 --> 01:00:28,170
And I will use this serpent to expose
the darkness to the true light.

810
01:00:35,410 --> 01:00:40,870
He was willing to include that sort of
as part of his character, the recovering

811
01:00:40,870 --> 01:00:42,590
alcoholic who had found God.

812
01:00:43,110 --> 01:00:49,150
I've got it on good authority that poor
Jake has fallen off the wagon again.

813
01:00:50,770 --> 01:00:55,210
He missed his AA or his AA meeting. As a
matter of fact, with Jake, it's a AAA

814
01:00:55,210 --> 01:01:00,030
meeting. I hammered him pretty hard. I
mean, you know, it was all about the

815
01:01:00,030 --> 01:01:04,050
drink and the booze and all of that sort
of stuff. I mean, it was constant. It

816
01:01:04,050 --> 01:01:06,630
was hammering him, hammering him. Oh,
it's driving him crazy not having it.

817
01:01:06,750 --> 01:01:11,370
There was one time that I poured whiskey
down his throat, and it was real

818
01:01:11,370 --> 01:01:12,370
whiskey.

819
01:01:12,470 --> 01:01:14,990
He's not going to do this to Jake. Oh,
my goodness.

820
01:01:16,570 --> 01:01:17,308
That's raw.

821
01:01:17,310 --> 01:01:19,610
That's raw booze he's dumping down
Jake's.

822
01:01:19,880 --> 01:01:20,859
Look at this.

823
01:01:20,860 --> 01:01:25,060
I'm sorry for it, too. I believe it did
have some long lasting effects because

824
01:01:25,060 --> 01:01:28,600
that's something that, you know,
sobriety is something that's an ongoing

825
01:01:28,600 --> 01:01:29,600
process.

826
01:01:30,520 --> 01:01:31,520
Oh, my God.

827
01:01:31,640 --> 01:01:32,760
Do you hear what Jake said?

828
01:01:33,640 --> 01:01:36,200
He wants to know if anybody's got a beer
for a chaser.

829
01:01:41,440 --> 01:01:48,380
When you think about Jake's return in
1996, what you think about most is King

830
01:01:48,380 --> 01:01:49,209
of the Ring.

831
01:01:49,210 --> 01:01:50,470
And Stone Cold Steve Austin.

832
01:01:54,450 --> 01:01:57,710
The king

833
01:01:57,710 --> 01:02:04,530
of

834
01:02:04,530 --> 01:02:08,870
the ring, Stone Cold Steve Austin, an
incredible victory.

835
01:02:12,330 --> 01:02:18,030
Get that piece of crap out of my ring.
You ain't got what it takes anymore.

836
01:02:19,530 --> 01:02:25,430
You sit there and you thump your Bible
and you say your prayers and it didn't

837
01:02:25,430 --> 01:02:26,430
get you anywhere.

838
01:02:27,430 --> 01:02:31,330
Talk about your Psalms, talk about John
3 .16.

839
01:02:32,190 --> 01:02:35,830
Austin 3 .16 says I just whipped your
ass.

840
01:02:37,990 --> 01:02:42,190
And that's the bottom line because Stone
Cold said so.

841
01:02:42,530 --> 01:02:45,870
If Jake the Snake isn't a born -again
Christian,

842
01:02:46,920 --> 01:02:49,740
then he never references John 3 .16.

843
01:02:50,400 --> 01:02:56,920
And if Jake doesn't reference John 3
.16, there's no Austin 3 .16.

844
01:02:58,660 --> 01:03:05,580
You can never forget that the Attitude
Era and the future of wrestling

845
01:03:05,580 --> 01:03:11,000
was incredibly affected by Jake's
appearance in 1996 and 97.

846
01:03:13,360 --> 01:03:16,100
The disheartening thing about an
Attitude is,

847
01:03:17,320 --> 01:03:18,320
He'll do anything.

848
01:03:19,000 --> 01:03:23,280
Lie, cheat, steal, rob, even kill.

849
01:03:25,880 --> 01:03:27,360
Or even lie to himself.

850
01:03:29,280 --> 01:03:30,460
Damn, one more hit.

851
01:03:34,560 --> 01:03:38,640
They say when you hit bottom, it's time
to stop digging.

852
01:03:39,660 --> 01:03:41,600
You know, that's real easy to say.

853
01:03:42,110 --> 01:03:45,790
Especially when you're sitting on top
looking down at the dumbass that's

854
01:03:45,790 --> 01:03:46,790
his own grave.

855
01:03:49,710 --> 01:03:52,230
Down there, it's real dark.

856
01:03:53,990 --> 01:03:54,990
There's no light.

857
01:03:56,110 --> 01:03:57,110
What do you do?

858
01:03:57,550 --> 01:03:59,150
You just keep digging.

859
01:04:02,970 --> 01:04:09,230
I was at the top of my game in 93,
beginning of 96.

860
01:04:09,730 --> 01:04:11,010
May have been anywhere I went.

861
01:04:19,240 --> 01:04:24,500
It soured pretty quick because I
couldn't be around wrestlers that were

862
01:04:24,500 --> 01:04:26,380
partying. I wasn't strong enough.

863
01:04:27,020 --> 01:04:30,080
Christian or not, man, you've got to
fight the devil every damn day.

864
01:04:33,900 --> 01:04:40,840
The only comfort I

865
01:04:40,840 --> 01:04:42,420
could find was a drink and a drug.

866
01:04:43,220 --> 01:04:45,380
It was the only thing that made pain go
away.

867
01:04:46,140 --> 01:04:47,720
But as I turned to it...

868
01:04:48,080 --> 01:04:53,080
It wound up destroying everything, every
hope, every dream that I ever had.

869
01:04:57,540 --> 01:05:00,300
My wife was smart. She got away from me.

870
01:05:01,760 --> 01:05:03,100
She gave me a choice.

871
01:05:04,540 --> 01:05:10,500
You can do your drugs, drink, but you
can't stay here and do it.

872
01:05:11,500 --> 01:05:12,880
And she stood her ground.

873
01:05:15,690 --> 01:05:17,330
We separated and divorced.

874
01:05:18,210 --> 01:05:22,670
When that happened, all hell broke loose
inside of me.

875
01:05:26,230 --> 01:05:29,890
Cocaine speeds me up so fast I can't
think about my past.

876
01:05:31,250 --> 01:05:37,710
It speeds me up so fast that I don't
have to be responsible.

877
01:05:39,370 --> 01:05:41,130
The Jake of 1998.

878
01:05:45,550 --> 01:05:47,570
He couldn't be in the room with us.

879
01:05:48,350 --> 01:05:50,850
It was painful to be with him.

880
01:05:52,530 --> 01:05:54,050
I'm just getting really up.

881
01:05:58,610 --> 01:06:00,170
Really up inside.

882
01:06:04,150 --> 01:06:05,590
I don't know where to go.

883
01:06:07,230 --> 01:06:09,810
I was grateful when he died away.

884
01:06:11,730 --> 01:06:12,730
I was...

885
01:06:20,940 --> 01:06:21,940
said that out loud.

886
01:06:24,380 --> 01:06:28,400
Thank you, gentlemen. Back here I have a
man of legendary proportion, the man

887
01:06:28,400 --> 01:06:29,680
Jake the Snake Roberts.

888
01:06:29,960 --> 01:06:32,920
He is a man that you all recognize. He's
a legend.

889
01:06:33,140 --> 01:06:35,260
He was one of the first to come to
Casino Magic.

890
01:06:35,780 --> 01:06:40,900
You know, you're in a casino and
everybody says, well, gosh, in a casino

891
01:06:40,900 --> 01:06:41,900
should gamble.

892
01:06:41,940 --> 01:06:47,040
Let me tell you something, man. You
don't want to play cards with me because

893
01:06:47,040 --> 01:06:48,040
I'll cheat.

894
01:06:48,340 --> 01:06:49,340
Okay?

895
01:06:49,640 --> 01:06:50,640
I cheat.

896
01:06:51,640 --> 01:06:54,840
I don't think Jake knows where he is. I
don't think they're going to fight the

897
01:06:54,840 --> 01:06:55,900
way things are going now.

898
01:06:56,220 --> 01:07:01,400
I'm ashamed to tell you the depth of how
low I got.

899
01:07:03,760 --> 01:07:04,780
It was horrible.

900
01:07:06,280 --> 01:07:11,120
To go from performing in front of tens
of thousands of people on a regular

901
01:07:11,120 --> 01:07:17,940
basis, to go from that level to high

902
01:07:17,940 --> 01:07:23,570
school gyms, And worse, high,

903
01:07:23,950 --> 01:07:29,590
wrestling high, wrestling drunk, asking
promoters to find you crack.

904
01:07:30,530 --> 01:07:36,330
It's one of the worst falls we've ever
seen in wrestling.

905
01:07:39,590 --> 01:07:42,790
I wonder what goes through my head.

906
01:07:43,410 --> 01:07:45,890
It's not like I set out to do that.

907
01:07:48,200 --> 01:07:50,860
I guess what I'm really trying to say
is, you know, I was sitting here

908
01:07:50,920 --> 01:07:54,700
you know, why do you just go off like
that? Why do you just keep pushing and

909
01:07:54,700 --> 01:07:55,700
pushing and pushing?

910
01:07:56,780 --> 01:07:57,780
It's hard to watch.

911
01:08:02,640 --> 01:08:03,660
Real hard to watch.

912
01:08:04,300 --> 01:08:10,100
And I worry more now for my kids about
what's out there.

913
01:08:10,960 --> 01:08:16,960
Because they have a certain belief of
who their Papa Jake is.

914
01:08:17,600 --> 01:08:18,600
It's cool.

915
01:08:20,000 --> 01:08:22,620
That is something you can be proud of.

916
01:08:23,640 --> 01:08:27,279
But I know some of the stuff that's out
there, and it won't go away.

917
01:08:29,100 --> 01:08:31,520
Well, guess what? That's bad news for
you.

918
01:08:31,760 --> 01:08:35,460
Somebody said kick your ass in about
three or four or five minutes.

919
01:08:35,700 --> 01:08:39,300
I'm going to dump my shit on you, and I
feel sorry for you.

920
01:08:39,520 --> 01:08:43,439
So, brother, look at them, because you
know what?

921
01:08:44,840 --> 01:08:46,760
I've got something for you right here.

922
01:08:48,190 --> 01:08:54,210
For years, everyone expected that that
was going to be the next, you know, in

923
01:08:54,210 --> 01:08:57,569
memoriam on WWE,

924
01:08:59,170 --> 01:09:05,109
you know. And, I mean, I thought so,
too.

925
01:09:05,649 --> 01:09:08,550
It's just a matter of time.

926
01:09:10,510 --> 01:09:16,529
But you are not giving me the same
respect, man.

927
01:09:17,040 --> 01:09:18,840
Shut the F up!

928
01:09:23,180 --> 01:09:29,920
I've tried to commit suicide

929
01:09:29,920 --> 01:09:31,920
a handful of times.

930
01:09:38,100 --> 01:09:40,200
It took like a hundred Valium.

931
01:09:41,240 --> 01:09:42,720
I should have done it.

932
01:09:49,260 --> 01:09:52,420
But the next morning I woke up, I puked
all over myself. I guess that's what

933
01:09:52,420 --> 01:09:53,420
saved my life.

934
01:09:59,620 --> 01:10:02,120
The really ugly times were with cocaine.

935
01:10:04,420 --> 01:10:05,640
Begging to die.

936
01:10:11,400 --> 01:10:17,060
Just continually hitting that pipe. It
would get so hot that I'd burn my lips.

937
01:10:22,220 --> 01:10:25,200
I hit the pipe and cursed the devil. I
hit the pipe and cursed God. I hit the

938
01:10:25,200 --> 01:10:26,200
pipe and cursed God.

939
01:10:27,040 --> 01:10:28,040
Jesus.

940
01:10:30,680 --> 01:10:32,960
Thank you, sweet Jesus, for not letting
me die.

941
01:10:40,020 --> 01:10:47,020
For my dad, I worry that he can't break
very many more times. Right?

942
01:10:47,100 --> 01:10:52,100
How many times could he break and put
himself through? together.

943
01:10:53,040 --> 01:10:54,620
It's like the nine lives.

944
01:10:55,320 --> 01:10:57,960
Certainly you've got to run out at some
point.

945
01:11:02,380 --> 01:11:08,620
You know, after a while you get so
freaking good at letting people down

946
01:11:08,620 --> 01:11:10,560
just doesn't feel natural doing anything
else.

947
01:11:15,360 --> 01:11:20,400
You have to get down so low that you're
willing to do anything.

948
01:11:21,180 --> 01:11:22,180
To get clean.

949
01:11:25,820 --> 01:11:32,480
You don't think I wouldn't cut off an
arm to throw back the time

950
01:11:32,480 --> 01:11:35,980
to where I didn't walk away from my
family?

951
01:11:39,920 --> 01:11:44,060
I'd cut off both legs, man, if I could
have a relationship with some of my

952
01:11:45,760 --> 01:11:48,500
Because I hate myself more than they
could ever hate me.

953
01:11:50,090 --> 01:11:51,090
For that failure.

954
01:12:02,090 --> 01:12:04,430
All right, I need to stop.

955
01:12:15,990 --> 01:12:18,090
Jake's my brother. He's my...

956
01:12:18,830 --> 01:12:22,510
He's probably one of the three closest
people in the world to me.

957
01:12:23,070 --> 01:12:30,070
He finally understood, like, when you
get high, you are not a good person,

958
01:12:30,250 --> 01:12:34,530
Like, you don't want to be around. You,
straight Jake, would never want to be

959
01:12:34,530 --> 01:12:36,230
around high Jake, ever.

960
01:12:40,030 --> 01:12:46,010
We're going to go over to DDP's house,
Diamond Dallas Page, and this is where I

961
01:12:46,010 --> 01:12:47,010
got sober at.

962
01:12:47,720 --> 01:12:53,160
For two and a half years, I worked on
Getting Sober, and they turned it into a

963
01:12:53,160 --> 01:12:59,560
movie or a documentary, whatever you
want to call it. And it's beyond belief

964
01:12:59,560 --> 01:13:05,140
how many people came to me and thanked
me for doing

965
01:13:05,140 --> 01:13:08,820
the movie The Resurrection of Jake
Roberts.

966
01:13:11,700 --> 01:13:14,620
When we started filming him down there
in Gainesville, Texas,

967
01:13:15,350 --> 01:13:18,810
He literally had gone to rehab a month
before, but he went right back.

968
01:13:19,050 --> 01:13:23,990
Coke and crack and, yeah, went right
back drinking and pills.

969
01:13:32,130 --> 01:13:37,090
Recently, I've been talking to Jake
quite a bit. Known him for quite a

970
01:13:37,090 --> 01:13:42,290
years. He's hit on some really hard
times. His body's really beat up. A

971
01:13:42,290 --> 01:13:43,290
over a year ago.

972
01:13:44,710 --> 01:13:45,710
Retired officially.

973
01:13:46,750 --> 01:13:48,890
The only passion I had was wrestling.

974
01:13:49,310 --> 01:13:50,310
Had to give it up.

975
01:13:50,670 --> 01:13:51,930
I had a life.

976
01:13:52,730 --> 01:13:53,930
But I poisoned it.

977
01:13:54,370 --> 01:13:56,630
Come up on your knees. I'm going to show
you something.

978
01:13:58,870 --> 01:14:00,290
You've not used your toes.

979
01:14:01,390 --> 01:14:04,290
You're like a year or two away from
having to go to war.

980
01:14:04,690 --> 01:14:06,910
I know this is my land.

981
01:14:07,790 --> 01:14:10,010
I hated myself.

982
01:14:14,930 --> 01:14:18,130
Truly hated myself. I took the mirrors
down in my house because I couldn't

983
01:14:18,130 --> 01:14:19,130
to look at me.

984
01:14:22,890 --> 01:14:23,890
I'm right here.

985
01:14:24,130 --> 01:14:27,410
Now try bending this knee to get down to
that.

986
01:14:28,710 --> 01:14:30,590
I'm right here. I'm right here. I'm
right here.

987
01:14:30,810 --> 01:14:36,910
I think DDP yoga is probably what saved
my life.

988
01:14:38,870 --> 01:14:41,890
Because I couldn't get around anymore. I
couldn't get up. I couldn't get down.

989
01:14:46,030 --> 01:14:52,870
Once he really stayed sober and the fog
lifted, now your brain starts

990
01:14:52,870 --> 01:14:57,670
to heal itself and you get sharper
again.

991
01:14:57,930 --> 01:15:03,210
You could talk to Jake about anything
today. Back then, not so much.

992
01:15:04,350 --> 01:15:06,150
I feel like I'm suffocating.

993
01:15:06,470 --> 01:15:08,050
I still want to drink.

994
01:15:08,870 --> 01:15:10,130
I don't want to use.

995
01:15:10,570 --> 01:15:14,390
Right now, I'm out here pacing.

996
01:15:15,310 --> 01:15:16,930
Because I don't want to do it.

997
01:15:17,570 --> 01:15:22,690
You know, even though I'd fall, you
know, I'd go for two or three months and

998
01:15:22,690 --> 01:15:25,310
really good, and then, boom, I'd screw
up again.

999
01:15:25,990 --> 01:15:29,210
Or, here's the thing, brother, I had
oysters.

1000
01:15:30,570 --> 01:15:35,230
Please, please, sell that to someone
else. And it was heartbreaking to me to

1001
01:15:35,230 --> 01:15:36,230
through that.

1002
01:15:36,330 --> 01:15:42,770
Because so badly I wanted sobriety and
wasn't able to get it. But by doing it

1003
01:15:42,770 --> 01:15:44,110
and letting the people see it.

1004
01:15:44,940 --> 01:15:46,760
It gave them the courage to try.

1005
01:15:47,000 --> 01:15:53,840
9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2,

1006
01:15:54,140 --> 01:16:00,840
1. Maybe it was that someone reached out
and cared enough

1007
01:16:00,840 --> 01:16:04,480
to say, hey, there's worth in you.

1008
01:16:05,540 --> 01:16:11,760
Maybe he didn't realize for a long time
how many people were rooting for him all

1009
01:16:11,760 --> 01:16:12,760
along.

1010
01:16:13,600 --> 01:16:15,440
Bye -bye, Papa Jake.

1011
01:16:16,080 --> 01:16:17,540
Daddy, I want to do this.

1012
01:16:18,500 --> 01:16:19,500
Love you.

1013
01:16:21,140 --> 01:16:27,920
During his deepest struggles, we
couldn't have ever reached him to the

1014
01:16:27,920 --> 01:16:30,340
degree that Dallas was able to.

1015
01:16:32,100 --> 01:16:34,620
I don't think my dad would be alive if
it wasn't for him.

1016
01:16:36,640 --> 01:16:41,040
Jake Roberts today is exactly who he
wants to be.

1017
01:16:41,640 --> 01:16:47,680
And that's a good person who cares,
loves his family, and wants to help

1018
01:16:47,680 --> 01:16:48,680
people.

1019
01:16:48,780 --> 01:16:49,780
That's powerful.

1020
01:16:53,060 --> 01:16:56,980
Don't give up. Don't give up. That's the
thing. Don't ever give up.

1021
01:16:57,240 --> 01:17:02,680
You may fall and bust your butt and
screw up, but dust yourself off, get

1022
01:17:02,680 --> 01:17:03,980
up, and go at it again.

1023
01:17:04,580 --> 01:17:05,900
And that's what I've done.

1024
01:17:08,840 --> 01:17:12,520
Our next inductee for the class of 2014.

1025
01:17:13,940 --> 01:17:20,600
Ladies and gentlemen, I proudly present
the prodigal son, the one, the only,

1026
01:17:20,800 --> 01:17:22,660
Jake the Stink!

1027
01:17:32,240 --> 01:17:36,660
I don't remember walking to the podium
because I'm pretty sure that I was just

1028
01:17:36,660 --> 01:17:39,520
six inches off the ground and I was just
floating.

1029
01:17:41,380 --> 01:17:44,980
To see him inducted into the Hall of
Fame, an incredibly beautiful full

1030
01:17:44,980 --> 01:17:45,980
moment.

1031
01:18:00,270 --> 01:18:04,250
I think that'll be his legacy is he's
just a tremendous character and

1032
01:18:04,250 --> 01:18:05,250
storyteller.

1033
01:18:05,690 --> 01:18:06,690
I'm proud of him.

1034
01:18:07,290 --> 01:18:11,830
And I would say to anybody that runs
into him, pat him on the back. Tell him

1035
01:18:11,830 --> 01:18:13,270
he's doing a great job because he is.

1036
01:18:13,610 --> 01:18:18,990
I've got some special people here called
family.

1037
01:18:20,490 --> 01:18:24,190
When my girls are born, please stand up
because you're my heroes.

1038
01:18:28,560 --> 01:18:35,120
Those grandkids only know him as Papa J,
and he gets to see what a blessing

1039
01:18:35,120 --> 01:18:39,160
it is to be around your kids and your
grandkids and getting to see them in

1040
01:18:39,160 --> 01:18:41,560
moments be a part of their lives.

1041
01:18:42,300 --> 01:18:47,280
Just to watch and see the emotions that
everybody went through, to see that he

1042
01:18:47,280 --> 01:18:51,260
was making progress on rebuilding, that
meant a lot.

1043
01:18:54,200 --> 01:18:55,420
I love them.

1044
01:18:56,090 --> 01:18:58,050
They gave me a second chance.

1045
01:19:00,330 --> 01:19:03,710
And God bless the WWE because they gave
me one too.

1046
01:19:04,090 --> 01:19:05,210
Thank you very much.

1047
01:19:12,630 --> 01:19:13,790
He's a different person.

1048
01:19:14,510 --> 01:19:16,390
And he wants to help a lot of people.

1049
01:19:29,800 --> 01:19:31,080
I'm that guy now.

1050
01:19:31,420 --> 01:19:33,980
I'm that guy that got friggin' sober,
man.

1051
01:19:34,380 --> 01:19:36,560
I'm that guy that's doing the right
thing.

1052
01:19:37,940 --> 01:19:44,520
I guess whatever it is that drives him
to continue to live,

1053
01:19:44,880 --> 01:19:50,420
thank God, is stronger than whatever
demons were trying to kill him.

1054
01:19:51,700 --> 01:19:55,240
Now I've got 10 years under my belt,
man. I can't believe that.

1055
01:19:59,800 --> 01:20:03,200
Wanting to put this piece out there
because I think this piece is going to

1056
01:20:03,200 --> 01:20:04,200
some people, too.

1057
01:20:09,500 --> 01:20:11,840
There we go. Fish on, baby. Fish on,
baby.

1058
01:20:12,180 --> 01:20:13,560
Oh, yeah, baby.

1059
01:20:14,420 --> 01:20:15,880
Dang, that is a good son.

1060
01:20:17,200 --> 01:20:18,500
Yes, sir.

1061
01:20:18,800 --> 01:20:19,800
There you go, big boy.

1062
01:20:19,920 --> 01:20:20,920
Dang,

1063
01:20:21,140 --> 01:20:23,500
that's a hog. That is a hog. How big is
that? Striper candy.

1064
01:20:23,960 --> 01:20:25,120
17, 18.

1065
01:20:25,580 --> 01:20:26,580
Oh.

1066
01:20:26,720 --> 01:20:27,760
Dang, that's a good son.

1067
01:20:28,060 --> 01:20:29,060
Hey, y 'all can stop now.

1068
01:20:30,600 --> 01:20:35,580
If somebody had told me 15 years ago
that I would actually be on the lake

1069
01:20:35,580 --> 01:20:41,520
my boys and having a great day and not
chasing a cracked pipe or a bottle of

1070
01:20:41,520 --> 01:20:46,280
wine or whiskey or whatever, I'd have
laughed at them.

1071
01:20:47,600 --> 01:20:53,760
My siblings and I all have different
types of relationships with Dad.

1072
01:20:54,100 --> 01:20:59,340
And not everybody is okay with him.

1073
01:21:00,030 --> 01:21:03,970
Not everyone thinks he's a great guy.

1074
01:21:09,150 --> 01:21:10,310
I've got eight children.

1075
01:21:12,350 --> 01:21:18,850
I've got four that still don't want much
to do with me, and I understand why,

1076
01:21:18,950 --> 01:21:19,950
because I wasn't there.

1077
01:21:22,650 --> 01:21:27,250
And all I want to do is try to make up
for some of that lost time.

1078
01:21:28,010 --> 01:21:32,170
And I want them to know that it wasn't
them that was a problem. It was me.

1079
01:21:36,330 --> 01:21:40,190
Deep down inside, he's not a bad person
at all.

1080
01:21:43,070 --> 01:21:43,850
And that's

1081
01:21:43,850 --> 01:21:51,490
what's

1082
01:21:51,490 --> 01:21:52,490
so hard.

1083
01:21:55,470 --> 01:21:56,710
Because I know that...

1084
01:21:58,410 --> 01:22:00,410
He never wanted to do the things he did.

1085
01:22:01,930 --> 01:22:06,630
It's real life, man. This is not fake.
This is not TV. This is not some promo

1086
01:22:06,630 --> 01:22:07,630
that he's cutting.

1087
01:22:09,090 --> 01:22:14,230
It's things that you have to work on and
build over many, many years. It doesn't

1088
01:22:14,230 --> 01:22:15,230
happen overnight.

1089
01:22:18,490 --> 01:22:23,070
He's got a lot of calluses and a lot of
scars from his former life.

1090
01:22:25,420 --> 01:22:27,940
He's a very giving and generous person.

1091
01:22:29,700 --> 01:22:33,220
Not that different than most Americans.

1092
01:22:33,900 --> 01:22:35,040
He's had an addiction.

1093
01:22:40,080 --> 01:22:44,180
I hope he's made it to that place where
he is okay with himself.

1094
01:22:46,340 --> 01:22:48,420
You can't apologize anymore.

1095
01:22:48,660 --> 01:22:49,740
It's not necessary.

1096
01:22:51,240 --> 01:22:54,640
I heard in an interview one time talking
about how he took all the mirrors out

1097
01:22:54,640 --> 01:22:57,880
of the house or he broke the mirrors in
the house because he couldn't look at

1098
01:22:57,880 --> 01:22:59,940
himself. Put the mirrors back up.

1099
01:23:00,920 --> 01:23:07,680
I look forward to seeing the
relationships that he has and develops

1100
01:23:07,680 --> 01:23:11,640
my siblings because this isn't the end
of his story.

1101
01:23:12,620 --> 01:23:14,600
It's just part of his story.

1102
01:23:15,200 --> 01:23:18,040
You know, it's just one more chapter.

1103
01:23:39,980 --> 01:23:44,480
My granny sat down and explained our
family history to me.

1104
01:23:45,400 --> 01:23:49,580
My question to her was, tell me about
dad as a kid.

1105
01:23:51,240 --> 01:23:52,540
And it was amazing.

1106
01:23:53,980 --> 01:24:00,180
He was sensitive, caring, loved animals.

1107
01:24:01,460 --> 01:24:07,680
She talked about him being this gentle,
tender,

1108
01:24:09,240 --> 01:24:10,240
Precocious kid.

1109
01:24:10,920 --> 01:24:14,040
And that's who you see in that picture.

1110
01:24:15,460 --> 01:24:16,500
Of Aurelian.

1111
01:24:21,780 --> 01:24:23,720
You know, I can't put it in stone.

1112
01:24:24,800 --> 01:24:26,360
But I will tell you this.

1113
01:24:27,060 --> 01:24:31,840
That I'm going to work the rest of my
life trying to get it right.

1114
01:24:32,860 --> 01:24:36,580
And helping others that want to get it
right.

1115
01:24:37,390 --> 01:24:40,230
My history will not be my destiny.

1116
01:24:41,070 --> 01:24:46,490
My past will not look like my future at
all.

1117
01:24:50,290 --> 01:24:54,030
You go and meet people that you
performed in front of and you see a

1118
01:24:54,030 --> 01:24:57,810
glimmer in their eye because they're
going back to that moment and they're

1119
01:24:57,810 --> 01:25:02,690
reliving it. And I realized that I was
such a big part of their life.

1120
01:25:04,470 --> 01:25:11,070
There's millions and millions of people
out there that remember something about

1121
01:25:11,070 --> 01:25:12,070
Jake Roberts.

1122
01:25:12,830 --> 01:25:17,790
And if you can't enjoy that, man, you're
a damn fool.