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50 birthday the reason why we all were

devastated about Paul Walker is because

he's the nicest dude on human feet

Paul had real relationships with

everybody you felt his love you felt his

spirit he felt his energy you felt them

around the camaraderie the inclusion

this way look this way

he was somebody that cared and he was

somebody that really was experiencing

life and on the daily trying to

experience it to the fullest

never back down mindset you know go big

or go home he's just a kid from some of

the home yeah you know the gun-toting

hippie balance of opposites you know a

lover and a fighter she's got a lot of

fights when he was younger didn't lose

her in many fights he would have been a

great fireman he likes to grind he's not

afraid to get dirty

talks a lot of trash he just fits in I

just thought he was the coolest guy in

the world and had nothing to do with the

movies nothing here's a guy who's

getting the phone calls left to the

right for creditors and right in the

middle of that he's like dude I'm gonna

be a dad he's a jumper Paul Walker when

you meet this dude you felt like he

jumped out of a magazine it's like

that's who he was the cinema didn't

capture it all couldn't capture it all

Paul was always an actor who had one

foot in and one foot out he would just

disappear when Paul wasn't making movies

he wasn't in LA he wasn't even in the

country he would be like an Amazon or

he'd be like diving with sharks each

time he appeared in a Shark Week episode

he donated to my nonprofit he didn't

even tell me he did take care of people

to the point where she wasn't looking

after himself he pretty much made a

decision that he was gonna back away

from Hollywood it was like time I'll

have time I don't get time you know I

got money

I don't got time

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infuse new devices to get the most out

of engines and new thrilled

my dad set records in Bonneville our

family car was a car that he raced when

I was growing up and Paul wanted to hear

all of these stories

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he loved it

Paul used to go visit my dad and just

want to be with him in the shop and my

dad was not a talker but he would talk

to fall he became a gearhead because of

my dad my brother had big shoes to fill

my brother was actually the fourth Paul

walk my grandpa was actually the second

Parker he came from a line of just like

badasses

my dad's solely a guy's guy tough guy

you know military guy

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he was always sweet always kind always

nice the most loving person I've ever

met in my life I mean like he cared

about you you knew it

la is a big place and Paul grew up and

some let the hunger which is definitely

just an ordinary common street with

homes and very much of a blue-collar

place to grow up and raise family this

was Paul and I we just get outside

whatever it was let's just get outside

and do something just fun memories I'm

just doing things outside all the time I

have to say it didn't surprise me that

it became so successful and acting

that's Toby next door I'm not supposed

to feed him never I feed my puppy this

new puppy food

Toby goes crazy he would try out

different voices

sorry Kobe and characters and really

took a lot of pleasure and tormenting me

with some of these characters in your

opinion which of the two of you looks

better on stage today you or your sister

he always had that like ability to tell

a story and of course he had the looks

he must have landed or got a callback on

like 80% of the calls he'd go on one of

the people that really showed a lot of

faith in pot was Michael Landon telegram

a stranger around here you kids know the

Drake plan

my mother's mr. Jake's assistant she

knows that place inside out Rita Travers

he cast Paul is one part I think you

have to do with the ocean and fishes and

stuff and then there was another one

they needed a kid to play in the Special

Olympics Todd how do you live at the

group foster care home this is Bert I

was surprised to how good it was even

though I was there watching it being

filmed because he had this innate

ability to just feel I'm here brother

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like my brother

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my brother

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Wildman when Cody came into the family

he was a surprise to my parents and so

obviously surprise to all of us but Paul

was almost 15 I remember always a really

sweet really tender relationship between

the two of them because of that age gap

Paul wasn't just like a big brother to

me he was another father figure to me we

were going on vacation or you know for

spring break or whatever we knew where

were already going we were going to

Carpinteria state beach which is just

south of Santa Barbara we did a campsite

tents for the kids every night we

roasted marshmallows and s'mores and

doing the whole campfire thing that was

the Walker family vacation Carpinteria

was that's where we went for everything

I would wake up early in the morning

when it was gonna be - tide at daylight

and I would get the kids up and we would

go out to the tide pools Paul was just

fascinated by all of that and that's

where his heart always went after that

we had a Motorhome but the boys always

popped up their tents and there's a

palled is sitting in the opening of the

tent he's eating like a bowl of cereal

it's a good fall and his little brother

could when he came over and just put his

arms up you don't forget stuff like that

say hello Bob

don't look at me when Paul Reis 18 years

old the acting thing was you know as he

really wasn't too thrilled with it and

the process of walking away from you

know this career that Islam it puts so

much effort to and everything a lot of

things you know went sideways money was

gone that he thought he had earned to be

able to go to college there was

explanations for it which is the truth I

don't know I think it possibly went to

his you know education going to village

Christian doing all these things in my

opinion he would go make money and was

so easy that then he would spend it easy

to yeah definitely not the Matt best at

managing his money and all that kind of

stuff but who would be if you grew up

where it would come like that I was

scared I was scared that he wasn't gonna

turn around and go to school and do the

things that we had talked about his

whole life he wants to figure it out I'm

having a break there is a teen he's

already been working for what you know

15 16 years you know let him go do what

he's gonna do he was one of those kind

of kids that parents hate he was

fearless and that scared me I don't mean

to say he was amped out of his mind on

adrenaline he'd like to do exciting

things Paul was just that way she's

gotten a lot of fights when he was

younger didn't lose very many fights no

one messed with Paul you know you don't

really think of that as Paul you think

it was kind of like a heartthrob if you

don't really know him but you know

grandpa and father were always showing

us how to punch and you know all that

stuff he was a tough kid he grew up you

had a tough dad it was you know Vietnam

vet and just played all sports and was

just very athletic and very scrappy

growing up

Paul super loyal so if there's anything

that would happen circumstance that

happened that he feels like his friends

being threatened or something like that

there's a little bit of a switch that

Paul could turn on you know

and it gets real serious pretty quick I

can remember one time

Paul is walking to the store and a guy

was walking out had his arms full of

cans or whatever he had so paul opened

the door so he could walk out his he

walked pipe all he goes thanks bitch it

was on all tuned him up basically K

through 12 we all went to the same

school we just grew up together we got

in fights together we got chased by the

cops together we did things with where

our parents would get in trouble

together and by the time I became a

stunt man I was doubling him it was just

brothers that grew up together he told

us he had us around cuz we keep him in

check he knew we wouldn't let him get

away with stuff he saw the other actors

losing touch with reality sometimes he

didn't like the answer we give and he'd

be mad at me for a couple days and then

it was always better you know I met Paul

for the first time it's some party in

Glendale Paul was just kind of like this

bro guy hey what's up he and I hit it

off right away because he was a surfer

guy from California I was from Hawaii we

both been actors when we were kids and

he just automatically is like till you

got to meet my friends you got to come

hang out we got to go camping

surfing so I was like dude great we

lived in Huntington Beach for a while

and that was not healthy for him there's

too many guys down there who want to

fight especially if you're an actor some

guy on the street that rips off his

shirt that's 250 pounds and looked

meaner than anybody Paul's gonna snap

his acting skills would come in and he

would act for a few seconds and half the

time I wouldn't know if the fight was on

until it was halfway through he was

living in a garage and the whole pin and

he's got this phone that keeps ringing

nonstop and I'm like through that was

like your girlfriend he's like no it's

another bill collector he's getting

calls with bill collectors like every

two minutes it was crazy and he just

really didn't have any money he started

getting a lot of pressure to come back

and do films or TV shows things like

that from his previous agent from when

he was a kid I talked to him about it

considerably look at the numbers you're

already a commodity you already got your

foot in the door sometimes I read that

I did it based off his age and his look

and as you know this is vive and

everything I think he kind of knew

instinctively there might really be a

crack here he was like alright you know

might as well do this for real he'd made

some phone calls reconnected got a

manager I remember first meeting Paul

his hair was I don't want to say afro II

but it was definitely big curls and

longer he had a great sense of humor a

lot of energy a very magical look in his

eyes and it was kind of mesmerizing

actually when he looked at you but he

really looked at you just a really

present human being we definitely had a

bond and a trust with each other and I

did right by him and he did right by me

he ended up testing for some serious

films and then ended up booking

Pleasantville shortly after with a major

a-list director Gary Ross and an

incredible cast what's all the commotion

where's the cat it's naive 50s jock

captain the basketball team the dream

boat the dream Bodhi guy I guess I'll

see it's cool Mary Sue

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he was always known as the vagrant

always barefoot shop at the surplus

stores for like army clothes

Paul had a truck that would break down

all the time on his way to auditions he

would skip auditions but when he went

into the room and he actually met with

directors or read with casting directors

he executed the meet the Beatles

premiere was the first big premiere that

like our whole family got to go to 27 I

remember like almost crying seeing his

name on the marquee walking Kodak moment

it's bully Beatlemania we all got in our

best clothes and met up the family home

it was it was stressful

Paul was dressed really nice and the

last second had to go get a dry shirt

bill like he was worried that was one of

those times where I actually got to see

my brother really humid but he liked

being able to share those moments with

us

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here's a guy who's getting the phone

calls left to the right from creditors

and right in the middle of that he's

like dude I'm gonna be a dad and I'm

like oh my god this is horrible then

what are you gonna do you know you got

no money you're an actor you have to

know that his relationship with her

Rebecca was from there they were they

were kids together they're sweethearts

and then they were friends and then

there is he hearts and then they were

friends

he was scared the idea of having a baby

when it wasn't really ready to have a

baby they weren't married I said well

you guys could just get married cuz I

thought they're in love they're never

gonna be a part anyway I was tough I

mean mom and I weren't gonna be together

and I was raised Muhammad was told mommy

and daddy were supposed to be together

and it was a hard one for me

what's so conflicted I was thinking down

the road I was like honey where I was at

wasn't it chicks and having fun you know

I was an animal I want to be there my

heart wants to be in it the mind just

isn't following it Rebecca had been

around our home so much I treated her as

if she was my daughter we just became a

family that's a little different

oh you have kids young that's that's

part of the game you know it sounds cool

all of it you know you look back and

it's like he thought you knew yourself

you just didn't motional II I wasn't

there yet I don't even know who the hell

I was you know

he wanted to be like the super dad and

be there as much as he could but at the

same time that's when his career went

crazy he was all over the country film

in different movies and you know being

gone literally half the year

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I was lying in bed last night

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and I drifted off to sleep and I had a

dream that we're beating bang Ville 14-3

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and off the big screen good to have you

with us this morning okay your movie

varsity blues big big hit at the box

office so exciting you recognize when

you're walking down the street not too

much I mean I'm still the new guy yeah

yeah just like you Andy Walker everyone

125 years old I was casting the skulls

and Hall comes in you know I don't know

he's just sort of like a surfer dude but

you know he looks right and I said let's

read this part and remember in this part

you have to leave California behind you

have to dot the east coast and east

coast back to the Mayflower so he read

it and I said we're gonna have to work

on this language thing Oh Eric you and I

need we need to move to New York City he

said it a few times you don't even

understand like well I got to move New

York City

you gotta get the California we gotta

get all this out of us we got to become

like sophisticated guys and we're like

turtlenecks instead of coffee shops we

got to shake the bro if we want to you

know if we want to be taken seriously on

ended in the film business I took him

aside and I said look I want you to come

back in but please don't blow this

audition come in here and give me the

East Coast he came in he was dressed

differently he was much more buttoned

down and he he did it and I gave him a

hug and I tell him you got the part what

are you talking about I know what you

did what are you talking about he was so

good in that scene he gave Josh such a

run for the money he was so threatening

and dark and is why is that Lucas and he

was aiming these lung and and you really

felt the power

from the time of the cage seem to all

the rest of the movie I was working with

him like an actor right not like a

pretty California boy you know surfer

dude football jock you know it was like

you're acting now he was sopping it up

because I don't think any director had

ever talked to him like he was a

legitimate actor and and I knew he was

and I did I feel like I really worked

with the director that I really clicked

with I talked to my agent I talked to my

representatives back home I think I say

over and over again is that I you didn't

want to work with Rob again or I want to

work with someone just like him and you

go so what are you working on next I

said well you know I'm at the very

beginning stages this thing I don't know

and he goes is there a part for me and I

said I told you

yes I'm developing the lead for you

because well well tell me about it I

said well you're a cop who goes

undercover in the street racing world

and instead of doing your job as a cop

you fall in love with the people I get a

gun I get the girl

I get a fast car I play an undercover

cop I got a big conflict what else is

there for an actor because I meant I'm

in

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you really like the cars and I'm those

movies he got into it he could tell you

what size turbos the cars had or what

they should do different to make them

better and the other actors don't even

know how to drive a manual transmission

car he did his homework like nobody else

if you took then diesel okay and have

you ever been to New York or on the East

Coast

what kind guys are in New York hi guys

it's in your face and then you go to

Paul Walker and he's like yeah Calabar a

kickback it's all good so you took each

coast and you ended up like throwing

them together smoke you know it'd be

like oil and vinegar and you got this

great salad dressing for someone else

reason it's like you know it's it mixed

good I owe you a 10-second car I

remember sitting on the lawn of

universal van and Paul and me doing the

press junket and I said you know I think

all our lives are about to change I have

a feeling this film is going to be so

much bigger than anyone's expecting I

always believed the subject matter had a

chance to be successful but when I

walked out of that screening I knew he

was a movie star

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I'm enjoying it I have a blast I love my

job I get to travel gosh

I'm innocent amazing I mean this has

really been going on for me now like

maybe like six years I think Pleasant

though I did like six years ago

please welcome Vin Diesel and Paul

Walker boy

you know I don't ever want it to end I

saw the transition immediately I

remember coming out of a Detroit radio

station Paul and I going on the sidewalk

and saw a girl break down into tears

that Paul was coming out and we looked

at each other like that just happened

just like has anyone ever told you that

yeah what are you trying to do to me

right now you trying to make me blush

you know it's just really bizarre I mean

just not too long ago I was I was living

out of a garage and I was pan here no

this is my rolling crib so if once we

come on in and check it out

it's probably the height of our memories

of surfing was surfing safari trip we

got our old beat-up Motorhome is it nice

anyways we start at northern cow and

went down the California coast surfing

just stopping at all the different

breaks the best breaks of California he

actually makes his first MTV Cribs in

our motorhome back it's just funny it's

classic Paul right like hanging out in

this beat-up motor home for MTV Cribs

thanks for coming out appreciate you

guys go ahead make yourself a hole

rabbit being a movie star takes a lot

more responsibility just the way you

carry yourself the way you are in public

Paul was always willing to take a

picture if asked for somebody he was

always willing to sign an autograph he

was very gracious with that but it never

changed his spirit it never changed his

heart how much of a issues paparazzi for

you now I guess I'm gonna start hounding

you very soon are you prepared hideout

yeah things were not easy for Rebecca

because of people realizing who Mehta

was and they would come up in the

grocery store and try to pick her up and

it was a little scary

so she wanted to go move to Hawaii to

finish college and become a teacher art

and I think that was like wow I've made

enough money to be able to pay for my

baby's mama and my baby to be in Hawaii

and do this and it was like a real dream

of his for her to grow up and learn

about the ocean and learn about you know

just kind of being a hippie and learned

that style Paul showed up one day and I

was the only one happened and he said I

was the person supposed to balance this

I want to be there for a meadow I want

to spend all my time with her but you

gotta work while there's worked too fast

too furious had a bunch of women on the

set and a bunch of women in the city to

be young handsome making all that money

the token Negro and the token white man

in Miami it was it was hard to get a lot

of work done out there you know my god I

don't know we just got along really well

the only problem really was though is

like we got along so well that we were

screwing around yeah and so we got you

know John Singleton bark and Addison not

when I did a big car jump over a

drawbridge yeah and a little Nissan

Skyline with no suspension so it was a

hard landing

you would ask me how big the hits were

and how much it really hurt or how it

you know what I mean

he was so curious on that part of it I

like to think that's what separates me

from these other cats it's like hey I

want to do these starts he knows many of

them as I can anyways if you had to look

up the definition of ideal handsome

white man Paul fit every profile there

is blonde blue eyes 6-3 surfer dude

muscles at all time I mean this dude had

muscles in his kneecaps man he was full

throttle some dudes where they handsome

and they become arrogant with it and

they're unapproachable as a man he

wasn't intimidating because he was so

regular and so grounded and so cool he

was the guy that every woman wanted to

be with and every man wanted to be like

our personalities just clicked man

we both shared this kind of feeling like

it's perception versus reality I think

there's nothing more scary and me and

Paul's eyes than to have someone to give

you all this good energy and they have

the worst of intentions towards you to

run into executives at studios all the

time and it's almost like it feels mafia

like it's like hey oh we love you we

love you get rid of them right now okay

thank you hey man let's do lunch later

it's like wow they were so cool and then

you find out how they really feel about

you and so me and Paul had plenty of

those conversations I think after fast

the Furious one he became much more

hypersensitive to what he wanted to do

for the most part Paul was always

conflicted on whether to do a film or

not you know I think it's just patience

and you know I've gotten a point now or

you know I'm fairly comfortable and you

know if I'm gonna do anything I want to

I want to take pride in

Paul was screen testing for Superman I

think it was a 10 million dollar deal

and he was the front-runner I knew he

was up for it I knew thinking about

doing it and then I knew he did not want

to do 3 or 4 Superman's and be Superman

for the rest of his life all of a sudden

the phone rings and it's Paul I got an

ass on I got a cape but boots tights

this is not me I'm getting a got here

gotta go you boom and he was gone

I should be out there prospecting quit

your job now inspire but it's all part

of the play it's gonna keep this thing

going

get the boat-shaped up you have to make

a big fine who lived the rest of our

lives on her own clock Paul he loved the

water

he loved to scuba dive he loved action

into the blue checked a lot of the boxes

I think it started off as a good script

and everything like that I'm not saying

he didn't like the movie but definitely

did that one for the location and the

time to be able to go to the Bahamas and

rent a big fat house on the water and

work with cool people

he loved the ocean he loved the water

more than anything I mean going out on

his boat and stuff was so fun for him he

got hurt on that show and his day off

wake surfing behind the boat and twisted

his knee he was just very honest and

pure I just wrapped it with ice and came

in straight away and told them and then

like no I'll just finish the show and

we'll make it work did not want to get

surgery and get it handled then we were

offered a film and Paul was considering

it was always a major process to get to

the starting line it was never easy

we saw running scared as a vehicle with

a great filmmaker that could put Paul

and a grittier light when they told me

they said hey look you really have to

read this their words were this is

exactly what you've been looking for and

I was like oh really so is easy we

understood each other and we're gonna be

working together for a long time we were

going our separate ways you know you

listen to me you listen I don't want to

hurt Manny I'm told he was proposed for

a ranks kid it wasn't somebody that I

thought was ideal for the film The Fast

and Furious they were entertaining

movies but they had more of a comic book

called Tanish kind of feel to it as

silly as it is I actually think that was

more of who he was you know fighting bad

people for the lot like a good guy where

Brian O'Conner was a narc that

undermined the driving so he was really

never stoked on Brian O'Conner how fast

the various fans 'la hate that but you

know what I mean coke committed to the

movie we start pre-production and

trigger the financing everything and

that I can't get hold of Paul the clock

is ticking yeah we're weeks into

pre-production we're getting ready to

start finally I'm like if Paul doesn't

call me this week we're recasting the

movie it's it's we have 24 hours what's

going on

have you seen him have you seen him like

he's calling everybody like around the

clock because he can't reach them

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Paul finally calls me and he goes hey

wait how's it going as a poll I've been

trying to get hold of you and he goes

yeah sorry about that I be neither I'm

gonna run over it once but don't worry

I'm gonna come to say it's a couple of

days before we'll figure it all out and

I'll be there for you 1,000% everyday

and he was right you know anything about

a gun we have to see where pull tracks

down the janitors home address and he he

knocks on the door and she's holding a

newborn baby you don't call me you don't

tell Manny or anything come back here

soon as McCall cut the baby's mother

rushes onto the set grabs the baby up

swoops it off and everybody on the set

is like this is intense this is too far

then Paul comes over he drops down next

to me behind the monitor and he's burst

out laughing

he's like almost hysterical because this

is he was always a little bit risky and

a lot of times you did like break a

finger or break a bone in his hand to be

gay in the movie and he wouldn't say

anything to anybody the whole time

inside he liked it because it gave him a

little pain something to react to I

don't want to sell pain I don't act pain

hurt me that was who he was Paul was a

real tough guy he wouldn't back down for

anybody he just had an aura of

intensity about him Paul loved the

making of running scared

he loved the finished product of running

scared he'd really respected Wayne every

day I'd be saying god we've got to get a

technical crane for this and the line

producer would go we've got no more

money in the budget so forget about it

next day

there'd be a technocrat on set and I

would be like great we got the text no

credit I would find out off as Paul was

paying for it all Paul was saying don't

tell Wayne where this is coming from so

I mean that's who Paul was he was that

super generous guy when he finished

filming running scared he said you know

what this is what I needed but I'm still

like all gnarly I gotta get it out of me

I gotta go surf he called me up one time

and said dude I don't know where he was

because like I gotta get in the water

call it the negative ions call whatever

it is he felt anxious

he loved his time off and you would just

disappear and check away from all of us

actually

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Paul wasn't a guy who was off getting up

or doing anything crazier the rest of it

he just knew when he needed a break

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I think that wasn't as much of escape as

just going back to reality

that was real forum a lot of times you

know you get good waves and they could

be in nice places and then some pretty

impoverished places and you know I think

it exposed the world to him in a

tangible way a lot of the times in the

in his movie career he'd be just like

enough I'm out I'm out of here

it's definitely not a puppet you know

he's definitely not somebody that's

gonna just be told to do something and

then do it

he didn't like just going to a press

line and talking about himself in the

movie in the role he wanted to talk

about things that he really cared about

when I met Paul I was about 10 years

into a great white shark research

project at Guadalupe Island when Paul

joined us for an expedition we were

catching these big females and attacking

these satellite transmitters to them

basically we're hauling up giant

monsters from the abyss great white

shark and he went from 15 18 feet you

know over 4,000 pounds all in name of

science the first time Paul saw a white

shark get pulled out of the water he was

like a little kid hey mom look at me his

face was the biggest childish grin I

will never forget the look on his foot

that's where he was in his it was way

more important it was our common ground

was the ocean we both up the fish let

the spear fish love to dive up the surf

by the time he got off the boat I had a

whole new respect for Paul he started

making plans on how can I really have an

impact Paul Walker have an impact on the

ocean and he knew he couldn't do it by

himself

I traveled the world I've been to a

bunch of places I've experienced a lot

but nothing compares to what I

experienced on this trip I'd walk away

from it all to do this full-time he'd

always say like I wanted to be a park

ranger you know make 28 grand a year and

like live in the wilderness like that's

really what he wanted to do Paul looked

around hard where he wanted to settle

down because he was very nomadic Santa

Barbara is a special place

most of my time is spent you know Santa

Barbara north as I've grown older I

appreciate more where it's where it's

more lush and more dream there's nowhere

else like it on earth

it's it's unique Santa Barbara T'Pol was

like his safe haven 350 acres just up

above Carpinteria got a place where you

could go up there and hide and run

around get money and plant trees and

you know just do guys shit you know

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all like to race cars not street racing

but really race cars on tracks our

common inches was cars cars bought us

together you walk it over to me go hey

are you the guy that just bought my gt3

yeah I told him that I'm the guy and

also told him that you know a man should

never sell his gt3 in his life and from

that moment on we become close friend

really good driver conscientious of all

times he talked about it he you know

regularly I need to be that role model

you need to practice what I preach

he's adrenaline junkie you know him he

loves adrenaline he lists things as fast

always evolving Popeil they along with

Roger they put together a team and you

start hanging around more and more with

professional drivers and he started

really learning a lot of great skills

with cars because look back in a day we

have a lot of famous actor there the

racecar drivers the Steve McQueen right

you have Paul Newman he went on a movie

character to really become a racecar

driver a lot of respect for that

you get a pull to the track spend a day

being himself talk some trash and you

know it's who's fast was not fast

I remember going and seeing his private

collection of cause up in Valencia and

his amazing amount of cost

it wasn't even pretentious cause he

wouldn't go for like the most expensive

Ferrari or whatever it was he he liked

his Japanese racing cause he truly loved

the Nissan Skyline and those kind of

cars more than muscle cars he liked the

technical part and the better brakes and

all the stuff but then really what he

drove in his everyday life was the

tacoma truck he wanted somebody to crack

you know ding him and he'd be like oh

don't worry about it may just be shocked

if he was here right now and you know

had something cool parked outside and

you made a comment about how cool his

car is he would literally throw the keys

at you and say just cool go have fun

it didn't matter like when he didn't

have anything at all and then when he

had everything like nothing about him

changed

Paul had the passage from George Bernard

Shaw that said you know what I want to

be all used up you know I'm not just

some flickering candle I'm gonna be a

torch and when I'm done I want to be

thrown completely used on the trash heap

of life and I can actually say he did a

lot of things that be a lot of

difference in a lot of people's lives

you know he was a giver

that massive earthquake in January of

2010 Paul was frustrated with like well

I what can I do

he made some phone calls got friends

that knew firemen paramedics EMTs within

the firefighting community there's kind

of a group within a group of guys who

sign up because they're willing to

literally go anywhere we remember

watching Hurricane Katrina happen

Hurricane Rita and being frustrated and

so the same thing happened in 2010 when

the earthquake in Haiti that's when one

of Paul's childhood friends reached out

to me and just said hey I know you

really want to go help out I have a way

that you can go would you be interested

and I said yeah

one day I got a call and you said I'm on

my way to Haiti

I said you're wet I was very proud of

him but I was also terrified he kept

talking to people who kept telling him

no that's not possible no you can't do

that got to have clearance from the

governments and how is he even gonna get

there they don't have plans flying by

the seat of their pants there was no

chance that they were gonna get a plane

into port-au-prince

I remember we didn't have any way into

the country

and flights readin turned around the

airport was only accepting certain

flights so we had talked about flying in

the Dominican and so we just had the

basic plan of let's get to the Dominican

and see what we can do

you know Paul's relationship with ven

over all of the years ven Scott family

and in contacts and stuff in Dominican

Republic which is right next door I

remember meeting Vin Diesel and some

other people I'm just hearing about yeah

we might be able to get you guys a

helicopter so the next day we were we

were loaded into a couple vans and taken

to an airfield I remember looking out

the window watching the country go by we

were thinking a lot about our families

because there was a lot of scary rumors

that were going around about attacks on

aid workers the machete bands of

warlords and things like that so I

remember there was it was a quiet flight

we all just kind of all right we're

gonna do this baby was like nothing I'd

ever seen I've never seen anything like

that since then it was literally the

worst traumatic scene you could imagine

people were being shipped in with

multiple amputations multiple crushed

rooms no painkillers it was awful I was

literally holding the kid down as we set

his bone into place I remember seeing

that and thinking man that's that's real

genuine but that's that's why I want to

be here I appreciate that about him and

the fact that we were there because he

reached in his own pocket got us there

I'll never forget that when Paul started

reach out worldwide he warned me he said

no press no PR no press I don't want any

it's not about that

everybody wants to go viral for what

they're doing you know if you're doing

it from your heart why do you want all

the attention he never did reach out

worldwide with the intentions of press

and PR and wanting people to know that

he was the hero that he was

let's join rule by supporting their

efforts in the Philippines because

together we're gonna realize a much

bigger impact the race to relief starts

now don't need to know it's my thing

yeah you know it's like it's it's it's

something that I believe in so let's

join it together and it makes them work

like we're doing it as opposed we're

joining them as opposed to join me an ro

you know I just I think it's going there

was an intensity in Paul's life that you

knew like okay now this is this is

really what matters still this isn't

just the Paul going chasing ways but

this is the Paul that cares for people

and really makes an impact in people's

lives I don't think anybody can go to a

place like Haiti after that event and

not come back changed I think we all

came back different I know we all came

back different

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I wasn't in part three I wasn't in part

four and it wasn't because I didn't have

interest in being in it

there were various other people that was

kind of going out their way to snuff

that out Paul Walker was on a mission to

get me back into the franchise this just

went from mission impossible to mission

and freakin sanity you know we talked a

lot about family talk we both have

daughters as a father you find yourself

chasing your career chasing your

relevancy in Hollywood and so when it

comes to money one would say you just

made it all of that so you don't have to

go do three four movies in a row you can

just get this big chunk of money and

then go spend all this time with your

daughter and be at home and go surf and

live your life

at that time his life was all about

metal anyway just be like - she's the

coolest like she's just like I'm so

proud you know I mean she's just a cool

girl when Paula found out talking to his

daughter that she wanted to leave Hawaii

and she wanted to live with her dad

it made him so happy to know that she

wanted to come and live with him he was

like riddled with fear because he

preferred to himself does this

Disneyland dad I'd always show up and

she'd get to go travel with me go do

this go do that and he said that it was

like you know Rebecca's a great mom you

know but I didn't have to go through

like the flu the chickenpox you know

dire this that you know those now I get

to be there you know probably in the

most important time of her life and I

got to be that dad she tries to be a

little tougher than I want her to be I

wanted to be more revealing like you're

not home enough or you don't pay enough

attention to what I'm saying like I

wanted to see those things she's

honestly see the best partner I've ever

had she lives with me full-time now and

so we're in all this together when it

comes time to you know considering a

project whether I'm gonna do it or not

we sit down we thought while we discuss

it he would be like dude I only got six

more years until she graduates high

school I only got five more years so she

graduates high school and I'm

contractually obligated to do this or

that and they'll sue me if I don't do it

and when it's time to work he's gone for

months on end

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the hours was we went after that script

we loved that role for him we loved that

script for him and I think the hours was

one of the best performances Paul ever

had Mary's Hospital I got a baby on a

ventilator right away you know he's

trying to save his daughter and I knew

he tie it in and he told me he tied in

on that as he was getting older and the

way that he was changing being a father

doing the things that he was well he was

actually stepping into becoming a really

good actor I knew he was gonna be there

was only so many guys that are in their

late 30s early 40s that looked the way

he looked that were built the way he was

built that could do the action I will

say to him you're gonna be Steve McQueen

in your forties you know in your 50s

even you're so handsome right now that

age is actually gonna be good for you

more lines on your face give you some

grit you know we were we were on an

upper trajectory this guy was a limb

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being a big Hollywood star and the whole

thing is it's it's so difficult to do

that and to have a functional family

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he told me he actually had some

conversations like what if I just take

some time off but ultimately he said I

have a responsibility to a lot of people

a lot of people rely on me doing this

I have publicist and manager and he goes

I help provide for you Ashley I help

provide for mom who says material things

don't make people happy he did take care

of people to the point where she wasn't

looking after himself

I worried about him I worried about that

taking its toll on him and I wish

sometimes that maybe I had been more it

had a hand in helping him stop

I think Paul wanted most to be a great

father and I think that when he was away

from meadow or he wasn't spending time

with his daughter that wore on him the

most every single person in my family

every single person that calls Paul

friend has been told by Paul from his

mouth this is the last one

oh this is the last one this is the last

one and I've done heard that forever but

he couldn't walk away he couldn't quite

he couldn't quite walk away yet in his

mind and that's one thing that's like so

killer that sucks so bad about you know

he never got to really enjoy like just

watching his daughter grow up and enjoy

everything he had worked so hard for he

was finally starting to really kind of

put that together and like and then just

got got cut short

he took meadow out to breakfast and when

they came back I was in my pajamas in

the kitchen a little embarrassed that I

still it was in my pajamas but you said

Oh mom it's no fine I think he got a

text on his phone and he looks at me he

goes oh my gosh I was supposed to be

somewhere right now he told my mom he

said there's an event that I am supposed

to go to this is toy drive we made plans

to be back together in the evening and

decorate a Christmas tree that night and

then after he left her house he called

me yeah I'd like this this game plan on

like how to bring the family even closer

and then he after he got off the phone

with me he called Cody and had a similar

conversation he actually called me on

his way to that toy drive and I was at

work that day

and it was so glad that I wasn't on a

call when the toy drive was finished I

was driving to Cairo gt4 where he was

parked trying to put it back into the

garage Roger comes out joking wrong with

me saying that hey you know you probably

don't know how to drive a car i GT right

and it's my car let me take it home and

that's when Paul was leaving and said he

wants to take a ride with Roger first

it's just so stupid I've been on that

savings act loop

it's a industrial park there's nothing

there on a weekend there's no cars

there's it's all closed up there's

nothing there and it was just kind of

like oh you just like do a loop and they

get it get the car running up to temp

and then like put it away you got to let

these cars run you got to run them you

got to rotate the tires you got to do

these things and this is a customary

thing

it's a weird there's two cleaning up

then next thing we know we hear a lot of

noise a lot been supposedly

the impact knocked him out and then the

car just became this inferno

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be stuck in this car he's unconscious on

impact and then he just burns alive

after Paul left for that toy drive my

mom called me and asked me what I was

doing and I went over the house and we

ran an errand together and Lucas Wymer

walks through the door covered and suit

like singed eyebrows he told me that he

couldn't get in the car and then he said

he couldn't find him in the car

well I'm immediately saying we need to

go find him

I didn't know what he was trying to say

he was and couldn't find him because the

car was on fire and they couldn't get to

him at the scene of the crash deputies

had to wrestle one of Walker's friends

away seconds after it became clear Paul

and Rhoda's couldn't be saved coroner's

office also determined that the cause of

death mr. Walker is combined effects of

traumatic and thermal injuries and the

manner of death was accident

I I was actually the one who had to call

each member of my family I feel like I

had to keep breaking more people's

hearts if he knew Paul you loved him

just how it was

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I tried reaching Cody I couldn't so I

got ahold of his fiancee she said oh

he's he's working there's my wife and

she's just sobbing and my supervisor

says you you're gonna go home and she

pulls me outside start walking towards

the car I'm like what's wrong she looks

something really bad happened I said

what's wrong you've told me that what's

wrong

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and she just looks at me and she goes

it's your brother Paul take your sword I

said okay so he got hurt what's wrong

was he is he gonna be okay she did shook

her head to lose somebody like Paul it's

not snuff for the week you know it's not

for the strong either it's just

something that's totally messed up

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Suns not supposed to go before you yes

it's your worst fear it came to pass all

do you know okay this is we're gonna

test you now this is the test what's

today's date

yeah what year I just remember the very

first time I heard it

you know I immediately jump in my car

and I Drive down and be with the family

you know I remember uh giving I'm giving

Sharla hug and her words for Paul and

you were brothers and you will be

forever I guess like a little bit of

what can I do to help

right with meadow and everything like

that you're late there's so many

uncertainties he would have helped out

with if it would have been reversed he

would have been the one taking care of

everything for my family I really just

wanted to go to sleep and not have to

get up again cuz I just wanted to be

with you

even if I die at age 80 or whatever I

will never live even a third of the life

Paul lived I mean that guy that guy made

the best of every single minute he was

just a guy who could take life on its

own terms and find the joy in it at all

times there's nobody that ever worked

with him or ever knew him that doesn't

feel the loss I'm so so grateful that he

was in my life and that he was my friend

he was a supporter any you know a

champion for you he would be going

absolutely bananas over the fact I've

discovered a brand new population of

adult white sharks very near his

backyard in Santa Barbara

I know he would mean bugging me 24/7 hey

let's go again and I really wish I could

have him out there with me Paul taught

me that it may seem simple but to do

good many times when he hung up the

phone or into the conversation he said

you know be good and he meant he wanted

to do good things he wanted you to do

good things he wanted us to do more to

do better for the world

I had no idea the impact worldwide that

Paul has had until he passed away

I think we were all amazed to see how

far and wide Paul's influence went and

how many people loved him beef jerky

I learned a lot from Paul my humility

treat everybody the same respect and

love go out of your way to create

moments of uninterrupted quality time he

gave the best hugs man

there isn't a date it's gone by since

his passing that I haven't thought about

him sometimes I just talk out loud I say

what I want to say what I'm thinking we

still miss you we still love you he'll

always be a big

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