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[ mid-tempo music plays ]

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-My name is aurelian smith jr.,

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But I haven't been
called that in years.

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♪♪

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My name is
jake "the snake" roberts.

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♪♪

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[ cheers and applause ]
-the people have grown

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To love this man.

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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 pleases.

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Spent my life in the ring.

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Some people are imitators,
and some are innovators.

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And I'm an innovator.

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I'll drop you so fast
with that ddt,

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Your whole family
will fall down.

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-And there it is!
-Oh!

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-He enjoys what he's doing,
don't he?

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-That's my home.

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It's in my blood.

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-Listen to the standing ovation

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From this capacity crowd

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For jake "the snake" roberts.

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They're on their feet.

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-This is the bad guy
that everybody loves.

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-There's damien.

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-I am the snake,
and when I bite, brother,

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It's gonna be nasty.

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-What is he doing?!

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-It's a strange thing
that happens.

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-He is vicious!

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He'll strike!

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-You play a villain

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Day after day,

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Night after night,

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The bad guy...

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Come on.
Better if you quit.

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...Sooner or later, you are.

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-What's going
through that evil mind?

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-Beg, damn it.

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You want to save his ass,

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You better start begging now.
-Aah!

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-I don't know if you could come
up with very many villains

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That were as good
as jake roberts.

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-This is disgraceful!

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This is despicable!

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-Fans start to hate you.

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[ jeering ]
-oh, god.

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They love to hate you.

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-That's the devil himself.

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-Me and satan walked
side by side for a long time!

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Little by little,
piece by piece,

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

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-Wait a minute.

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Oh! Jake roberts
again with a chair!

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-...Things just to hate you for.

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-Look at this!
-Roberts with a king cobra.

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Wait a minute,
the snake is biting --

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Oh, the snake is biting him!

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Jake "the snake" has lost it!

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He's lost it!

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-He should be suspended
for life!

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-I gave wrestling
every damn thing I had.

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♪♪

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And what little bit
that I didn't give up...

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♪♪

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...Wrestling took that, too.

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-He's got to get
over into the corner.

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He's trying to stretch
out there.

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-I don't think jake knows
where he is.

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-[ crying ]
I'd do anything for my kids.

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[ sniffle ] and I can't imagine,
as a father,

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Not doing that
for your own kids...

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♪♪

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...Knowing the hurt
you've caused them.

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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 tool.

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Full of hate!

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-You could see it getting
out of control.

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-[ crying ]
he -- he smoked crack

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The entire drive

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From texas to georgia.

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-When you pull back
that curtain, the real story...

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♪♪

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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<i> his</i> dad was.

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♪♪

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I can't imagine going
through what he went through

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And thinking
that he had a way out.

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♪♪

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-Aurelian smith jr --
[ scoffs ] he's gone.

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♪♪

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And there ain't
no damn way back.

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You're not giving me
the same respect, man.

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Shut the "f" up.

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[ dramatic music plays ]

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♪♪

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-How many did you get?

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-Well, you haven't caught any,
either.

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But I had a -- I had a good --

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-It doesn't matter
how many you miss.

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-Had one on.
Had one on.

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It rimmed out. It rimmed out.
-[ laughs ]

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

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-It did not rim out.
-You weren't even --

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You weren't even close.
-It was on the pole

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For 10 seconds, guys.
-If it ain't in the --

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If it ain't the boat,
you didn't have a fish.

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-You didn't even make it
to half court.

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-[ laughs ]
-it's not my fault

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He has an undersized pole.

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If I'd had a bigger pole,
I would have probably --

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-Oh, now it's the pole's fault.

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-It's the pole's fault.

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♪♪

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This is what life's supposed
to be about, man.

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When you're out with your boys
and just looking at the sky

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And enjoy the water
and just breathe.

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♪♪

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Because you got to have this.

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If 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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♪♪

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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,

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You know, in his career,
time was going fast, you know...

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...And 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 the foundation...

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-Yeah.

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-...Putting a slab in,

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And we started
framing the walls...

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-Yeah.
-...And now we have a house.

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-Yeah, we do have a house, man.

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♪♪

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-That's why we come fishing.

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Now we have something
to build to.

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♪♪

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-There you go.
-Yeah.

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-Fish on, baby!
-Yes, sir, baby!

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-Fish on!
-One on, baby!

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[ mid-tempo music plays ]

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♪♪

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-Gainesville, texas.
It was almost like

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You were on the farm, you know?
We had a little --

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Probably a couple acres
there that --

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For a while, I had a horse.

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My grandmother had chickens
and stuff.

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And she raised chickens
to sell the eggs and to feed us.

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[ train wheels clacking ]

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[ train whistle blows ]

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♪♪

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-There was no hustle and bustle.

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You knew everyone.

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Everyone knew whose kid you were

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And, you know, would, uh,

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Just look after you
as if you were their own.

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♪♪

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-I played a little football.

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Wasn't that good.

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♪♪

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I wanted to be
an architect, man.

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I dug buildings, man.

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♪♪

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He was actually known to us
as buster.

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♪♪

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He was the big brother that --

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He was our greg brady.

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♪♪

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Everything he did was cool.

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You know, if he --
if he picked up a guitar,

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And even if he couldn't play it,
he was cool.

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He played the guitar.

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So you -- you --
you kind of looked at him and --

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And he was that role model,
the big brother.

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♪♪

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-My mother --

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My mother loved me
in her own way.

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She had a special way
of loving people that was deep.

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♪♪

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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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♪♪

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And you don't get
to pick your parents.

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Because, if I get to pick
my parents,

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I'd have kept my mother,
but my father, go to hell.

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♪♪

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[ cheering ]

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-Our father was over --

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A little over 7'0" tall

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And 350 pounds.

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You know, huge, huge.

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Probably the biggest person,
you know,

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Any of us would ever see.

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This is not somebody you were
going to talk back to.

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

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So he was --
could be pretty overbearing.

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♪♪

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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.

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He did it the right way.

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♪♪

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He would give you a whupping
for lying to him.

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He'd give you a whupping
whenever he thought

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You needed it.

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

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And believe me,
I made my share of mistakes.

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[ cheers and applause ]

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-Growing up, I hated wrestling,
hated it with a passion

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Because I felt like wrestling

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Had cheated me
out of the father that I wanted.

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

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It was my father that did it.

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♪♪

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-I can count on one hand

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How many times my dad
took me fishing.

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Oh, here.
Let me --

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Here we go.

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Okay.

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♪♪

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I can 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 the little-boy things
that you miss.

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[ somber music plays ]

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♪♪

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-I was the first one
in my family

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[laughing]
to ever graduate high school.

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♪♪

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I went to see my father

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Because he wasn't there
for graduation,

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Which did not upset me
because he was never there

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For anything, anyway.

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He didn't come to ballgames.

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He didn't do that stuff.

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I informed him
that I'd graduated

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From high school with honors,

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And I wanted to go on to college
and become an architect.

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That was my dream.

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And what I wanted from him
at that time

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Was just for him to love me
and say, "that's great, son."

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But instead, what he said was,

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"well, I hope you don't want
anything from me."

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I'm like, "want anything?
What do you mean?"

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He goes, "money or anything.

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I don't have it to give to you."

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I'm like, "you've never
given me anything.

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Why would I expect it now?"

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And he<i> still</i> 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

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And say,
"I'm proud of you, son.

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And what is this
architect thing?"

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Ask me a question
about what I want to be.

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00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:30,745
But nothing.
I got nothing.

260
00:10:30,863 --> 00:10:36,267
♪♪

261
00:10:36,269 --> 00:10:37,969
Sometimes parents just
don't measure up, man.

262
00:10:38,088 --> 00:10:39,212
I mean...

263
00:10:39,330 --> 00:10:41,939
♪♪

264
00:10:41,941 --> 00:10:44,250
...You know, sometimes they just
can't give you what you need.

265
00:10:44,269 --> 00:10:45,869
♪♪

266
00:10:45,896 --> 00:10:47,253
Whether they want to or not.

267
00:10:47,372 --> 00:10:50,281
♪♪

268
00:10:50,283 --> 00:10:51,708
[ exhales sharply ]

269
00:10:51,735 --> 00:10:54,268
♪♪

270
00:10:54,387 --> 00:10:56,470
[ sighs ]

271
00:10:56,531 --> 00:10:57,989
My father...
[ scoffs ]

272
00:10:59,676 --> 00:11:01,701
...He was the worst kind
of monster there is.

273
00:11:03,296 --> 00:11:07,073
His victims were little girls.

274
00:11:07,191 --> 00:11:08,441
Even his own.

275
00:11:08,560 --> 00:11:10,418
[ dramatic music plays ]

276
00:11:16,017 --> 00:11:19,252
-There's a tree in texas
called the iron oak.

277
00:11:19,370 --> 00:11:21,479
♪♪

278
00:11:21,597 --> 00:11:26,275
Tangled limbs, broken,
goes wherever it wants.

279
00:11:26,277 --> 00:11:29,245
♪♪

280
00:11:29,272 --> 00:11:31,364
Doesn't give a damn
what gets in its way.

281
00:11:31,366 --> 00:11:34,083
♪♪

282
00:11:34,111 --> 00:11:37,070
Iron oaks, though,

283
00:11:37,188 --> 00:11:38,971
They rot from the inside out.

284
00:11:38,990 --> 00:11:40,231
♪♪

285
00:11:40,349 --> 00:11:41,758
Just like my damn father.

286
00:11:41,785 --> 00:11:44,852
[ somber music plays ]

287
00:11:44,913 --> 00:11:50,508
♪♪

288
00:11:50,510 --> 00:11:53,861
The story I got
from my grandmother, man, was

289
00:11:53,922 --> 00:11:56,940
Pretty ugly
because I remember asking her

290
00:11:56,967 --> 00:12:00,276
If she had any regrets
in her life.

291
00:12:00,303 --> 00:12:02,946
And she said she only had one.

292
00:12:02,973 --> 00:12:04,371
I said, "what was that?"

293
00:12:04,433 --> 00:12:05,840
She goes, "I should've
killed your father

294
00:12:05,958 --> 00:12:07,434
When I had the chance."

295
00:12:07,552 --> 00:12:10,544
I'm like, "wow!
Why?"

296
00:12:10,605 --> 00:12:13,197
♪♪

297
00:12:13,199 --> 00:12:14,599
-I'm trying to make
a family tree,

298
00:12:14,717 --> 00:12:15,859
If that's possible.

299
00:12:16,019 --> 00:12:17,535
♪♪

300
00:12:17,537 --> 00:12:18,853
Start out with my dad.

301
00:12:18,971 --> 00:12:22,115
♪♪

302
00:12:22,233 --> 00:12:25,802
Dad had originally hooked up
with my grandmother,

303
00:12:25,829 --> 00:12:29,230
And they were dating,
so to speak.

304
00:12:29,249 --> 00:12:32,608
She's had a little too much
to drink and passes out.

305
00:12:32,669 --> 00:12:36,403
He gets with my mother,
who's about 12 years old.

306
00:12:36,423 --> 00:12:39,691
♪♪

307
00:12:39,693 --> 00:12:43,178
-So, he just went
into another room and...

308
00:12:45,832 --> 00:12:47,474
[ scoffs ]
...Raped my mother.

309
00:12:48,685 --> 00:12:49,684
12-year-old girl, man.

310
00:12:51,095 --> 00:12:52,278
[ scoffs ]

311
00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:56,191
♪♪

312
00:12:56,309 --> 00:13:01,370
-He was conceived
by rape that --

313
00:13:01,372 --> 00:13:06,342
That our father somehow had
that opportunity

314
00:13:06,369 --> 00:13:10,421
And, you know,
forced himself on -- on her

315
00:13:10,423 --> 00:13:13,166
And that's when
jake was conceived,

316
00:13:13,284 --> 00:13:14,275
I guess, and -- and...

317
00:13:14,336 --> 00:13:15,276
♪♪

318
00:13:15,337 --> 00:13:16,761
...Then they got married.

319
00:13:16,763 --> 00:13:19,080
I -- I'm not --
I don't even know.

320
00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:23,576
I don't even know how all that,
you know, went down.

321
00:13:23,595 --> 00:13:26,395
♪♪

322
00:13:26,397 --> 00:13:31,726
-Tiny is what people
called his dad, right?

323
00:13:31,845 --> 00:13:34,537
Because he's 7-foot-plus.

324
00:13:34,564 --> 00:13:36,856
And I mean,
I came up to his elbow.

325
00:13:36,975 --> 00:13:38,282
♪♪

326
00:13:38,284 --> 00:13:39,375
His elbow.

327
00:13:39,402 --> 00:13:40,360
[ chuckles ]

328
00:13:40,478 --> 00:13:42,862
♪♪

329
00:13:42,981 --> 00:13:48,718
-Whatever you want to call
this man, my grandfather,

330
00:13:48,745 --> 00:13:51,079
I mean,
he's a pedophile, clearly.

331
00:13:52,657 --> 00:13:56,951
He stopped being interested
when people got too old.

332
00:13:57,069 --> 00:14:00,621
♪♪

333
00:14:00,740 --> 00:14:02,431
-After --

334
00:14:02,433 --> 00:14:04,008
After paula has jake, jo lynn,

335
00:14:04,127 --> 00:14:06,477
And richard, they divorce

336
00:14:06,479 --> 00:14:11,790
And then grizz comes over here
to my mom, who is marsha...

337
00:14:11,810 --> 00:14:14,227
♪♪

338
00:14:14,345 --> 00:14:18,598
...Who, at the time,
was probably no more than --

339
00:14:18,716 --> 00:14:21,325
No more than 14 or 15.

340
00:14:21,327 --> 00:14:22,418
Had to be.

341
00:14:22,445 --> 00:14:24,821
♪♪

342
00:14:24,981 --> 00:14:30,885
And mom has mike and me.

343
00:14:30,912 --> 00:14:36,157
♪♪

344
00:14:36,317 --> 00:14:38,101
-What makes me sick
to my stomach, man,

345
00:14:38,128 --> 00:14:40,753
Is that he did the same thing
to my sisters.

346
00:14:40,872 --> 00:14:43,998
[ somber music plays ]

347
00:14:44,116 --> 00:14:47,852
♪♪

348
00:14:47,854 --> 00:14:56,603
-He started abusing me,
um, my -- my -- my --

349
00:14:56,721 --> 00:15:01,608
The memory of that that I have
is I was about eight years old.

350
00:15:01,726 --> 00:15:04,551
And -- and there's no doubt
in my mind

351
00:15:04,613 --> 00:15:08,131
That the same thing happened
to jo lynn.

352
00:15:08,291 --> 00:15:10,166
♪♪

353
00:15:10,168 --> 00:15:13,527
One day my mother was
out on an errand at the store,

354
00:15:13,646 --> 00:15:16,289
And he happened to be home

355
00:15:16,407 --> 00:15:18,791
And told me [patting]
to just come sit on his lap

356
00:15:18,910 --> 00:15:20,567
And, from there,
that was the first time

357
00:15:20,587 --> 00:15:21,961
He put his hands on me.

358
00:15:25,992 --> 00:15:27,391
[ clears throat ]
I didn't think

359
00:15:27,393 --> 00:15:29,844
I'd get upset, but, um...

360
00:15:31,397 --> 00:15:32,972
And so that happened.

361
00:15:33,091 --> 00:15:35,082
Um.

362
00:15:35,143 --> 00:15:37,435
And that continued
for a few years.

363
00:15:38,355 --> 00:15:40,313
And that was the --

364
00:15:40,431 --> 00:15:42,165
Wow.

365
00:15:42,192 --> 00:15:45,409
I think it was the first time
I got really upset

366
00:15:45,411 --> 00:15:47,428
Just talking about that.

367
00:15:47,447 --> 00:15:48,521
I don't know --
I don't even know

368
00:15:48,639 --> 00:15:50,064
If I've told that whole story.

369
00:15:50,182 --> 00:15:54,994
♪♪

370
00:15:55,113 --> 00:15:56,395
-F--- him.

371
00:15:56,414 --> 00:15:59,907
♪♪

372
00:16:00,026 --> 00:16:04,020
So many...Girls had
their innocence taken.

373
00:16:04,047 --> 00:16:12,720
♪♪

374
00:16:13,890 --> 00:16:15,823
-When I grew up,
it was real different

375
00:16:15,825 --> 00:16:18,734
Because I had some issues.

376
00:16:18,736 --> 00:16:22,538
First of all,
I lived with my grandparents.

377
00:16:22,565 --> 00:16:27,159
-Jake wasn't primarily raised
by his mother.

378
00:16:27,161 --> 00:16:30,287
You know, she didn't have
the skills to raise a child.

379
00:16:30,289 --> 00:16:33,382
-And my grandfather
was a good man,

380
00:16:33,410 --> 00:16:35,076
But he was an alcoholic.

381
00:16:35,194 --> 00:16:37,686
♪♪

382
00:16:37,747 --> 00:16:44,802
I dug a hole, I built a wall,

383
00:16:44,804 --> 00:16:47,788
And I learned to lie.

384
00:16:47,907 --> 00:16:49,974
You know?

385
00:16:49,976 --> 00:16:53,886
I stayed with my grandparents
until I was 12.

386
00:16:54,005 --> 00:16:58,574
That's when I chose to go
with my father.

387
00:16:58,601 --> 00:17:01,410
♪♪

388
00:17:01,438 --> 00:17:04,564
Whew!
It didn't start right away,

389
00:17:04,682 --> 00:17:08,067
But within two or three months,
it began.

390
00:17:08,186 --> 00:17:10,511
♪♪

391
00:17:10,572 --> 00:17:14,423
This was all done
by my stepmother.

392
00:17:14,451 --> 00:17:16,909
I started being molested by her.

393
00:17:17,028 --> 00:17:18,886
♪♪

394
00:17:18,888 --> 00:17:21,764
We'd have sex.

395
00:17:21,791 --> 00:17:25,509
And then afterwards,
she'd beat my ass, man.

396
00:17:25,511 --> 00:17:29,255
She'd beat me with
clothes hangers, hairbrushes.

397
00:17:29,373 --> 00:17:30,590
You know, "if your father
finds out about this,

398
00:17:30,708 --> 00:17:32,425
He's going to kill you."

399
00:17:32,543 --> 00:17:36,837
And I was scared to death that
my dad would kill me.

400
00:17:36,956 --> 00:17:39,190
-There was only about a
five-year difference

401
00:17:39,192 --> 00:17:42,143
Between my mother and jake.

402
00:17:42,261 --> 00:17:44,645
If something happened there,
I have to think

403
00:17:44,764 --> 00:17:46,731
That it would have had
to have been

404
00:17:46,849 --> 00:17:51,035
At the request of jake's dad.

405
00:17:51,037 --> 00:17:54,630
Our father.

406
00:17:54,657 --> 00:18:00,352
I can't see my mother being --
being an abuser,

407
00:18:00,371 --> 00:18:02,713
But it's very likely
that, you know,

408
00:18:02,715 --> 00:18:05,433
That's something
that father might have wanted.

409
00:18:05,460 --> 00:18:08,828
♪♪

410
00:18:08,946 --> 00:18:10,763
-Where does he go to get help?

411
00:18:10,765 --> 00:18:15,893
A small town, had to try
to figure out all on his own.

412
00:18:15,895 --> 00:18:18,562
And, you know,

413
00:18:18,564 --> 00:18:22,491
I think most of us in that
situation would have crumbled

414
00:18:22,519 --> 00:18:23,959
In one way or another.

415
00:18:24,020 --> 00:18:28,322
♪♪

416
00:18:28,482 --> 00:18:32,627
-As a kid, I don't think
he ever thought he had a chance.

417
00:18:32,654 --> 00:18:40,058
♪♪

418
00:18:40,078 --> 00:18:44,421
♪♪

419
00:18:44,423 --> 00:18:49,243
-You can take an ax
to an iron oak.

420
00:18:49,245 --> 00:18:50,645
Waste of time.

421
00:18:50,672 --> 00:18:52,538
The roots run too deep.

422
00:18:52,656 --> 00:18:55,849
They go every direction.

423
00:18:55,851 --> 00:18:58,594
They never, never let go.

424
00:18:58,754 --> 00:19:01,755
[ sighs ]

425
00:19:01,874 --> 00:19:06,202
I still remember that night
like it was yesterday.

426
00:19:06,229 --> 00:19:09,430
♪♪

427
00:19:09,548 --> 00:19:11,691
I went down to baton rouge,
louisiana, to see him,

428
00:19:11,809 --> 00:19:14,110
To tell him that
I was going to go to college

429
00:19:14,270 --> 00:19:16,687
And become an architect.

430
00:19:16,805 --> 00:19:20,916
That's where my young brain,
with the help of some alcohol,

431
00:19:20,918 --> 00:19:23,110
Come up with the idea of
"if you want your father

432
00:19:23,229 --> 00:19:25,554
To be proud,
you've got to get in that ring

433
00:19:25,582 --> 00:19:28,090
And beat up a wrestler."

434
00:19:28,092 --> 00:19:30,776
♪♪

435
00:19:30,795 --> 00:19:33,629
"you can do it 'cause you're 18

436
00:19:33,789 --> 00:19:35,398
And you're bad
and you can kick ass."

437
00:19:35,425 --> 00:19:38,976
I mean, I was a big kid.

438
00:19:38,978 --> 00:19:40,553
I remember getting in the ring,
man,

439
00:19:40,671 --> 00:19:44,122
And hearing the fans, for the
first time, cheering for me.

440
00:19:44,142 --> 00:19:46,309
Wow.
What a rush that was, man.

441
00:19:46,469 --> 00:19:47,976
Man, I felt like king
of the world.

442
00:19:47,978 --> 00:19:51,655
"come on, I'm gonna kick
your ass, old man."

443
00:19:51,657 --> 00:19:53,991
He was a short, little
dumpling guy, man,

444
00:19:53,993 --> 00:19:57,311
And, uh, he humiliated
the piss out of me, man.

445
00:19:57,429 --> 00:19:59,588
He twisted me up
in different ways

446
00:19:59,616 --> 00:20:02,499
That my body's
never been in since.

447
00:20:02,501 --> 00:20:05,578
G--damn, that --
it was horrible.

448
00:20:08,124 --> 00:20:09,673
I got to the locker room,
and my father,

449
00:20:09,675 --> 00:20:11,175
You know,
he was standing there,

450
00:20:11,177 --> 00:20:16,439
And he looks down at me
and he goes,

451
00:20:16,466 --> 00:20:18,365
"I am ashamed of you."

452
00:20:18,426 --> 00:20:20,092
♪♪

453
00:20:20,211 --> 00:20:21,685
"you're gutless.

454
00:20:21,687 --> 00:20:24,096
And you'll never amount
to a damn thing."

455
00:20:24,215 --> 00:20:27,967
♪♪

456
00:20:28,085 --> 00:20:31,412
-Jake told him -- he said,
"I will f------ do it."

457
00:20:31,439 --> 00:20:33,305
I was like, "oh, s---."

458
00:20:33,424 --> 00:20:35,349
I went and got on the other side
of the ring

459
00:20:35,467 --> 00:20:37,534
Because I figured them two
was fixing to go at it.

460
00:20:37,536 --> 00:20:40,537
It was just --
the tension was so tight.

461
00:20:40,539 --> 00:20:46,059
-And I remember praying
to the devil.

462
00:20:46,179 --> 00:20:50,306
"you help me become the biggest,
baddest wrestler, devil,

463
00:20:50,333 --> 00:20:52,716
And I'll do anything you want.

464
00:20:52,718 --> 00:20:57,054
But I want to be bigger
and badder than he is.

465
00:20:57,056 --> 00:20:59,148
I want to make
him eat those words."

466
00:20:59,175 --> 00:21:02,559
♪♪

467
00:21:02,561 --> 00:21:04,820
And that's the night that I
gave up on being an architect.

468
00:21:04,847 --> 00:21:08,224
♪♪

469
00:21:12,647 --> 00:21:15,314
♪♪

470
00:21:15,433 --> 00:21:19,076
-You know what's on my birth
certificate as his profession?

471
00:21:19,078 --> 00:21:21,562
"wrestling referee."

472
00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:23,656
I joke you not.

473
00:21:23,774 --> 00:21:26,909
That is on my birth
certificate from 1975.

474
00:21:30,540 --> 00:21:34,091
-I was so bad, they made me
become a referee.

475
00:21:34,093 --> 00:21:35,826
That's how bad I was.

476
00:21:35,944 --> 00:21:39,005
I didn't go and do it
the smart way of, you know,

477
00:21:39,123 --> 00:21:43,075
Going to a wrestling school
or having someone train me.

478
00:21:43,094 --> 00:21:46,103
I went the most foolish way
there is,

479
00:21:46,105 --> 00:21:48,105
The trial-and-error method.

480
00:21:48,107 --> 00:21:50,090
-Let's get us some action,
shall we?

481
00:21:50,209 --> 00:21:51,976
We're going to watch
jake roberts,

482
00:21:52,094 --> 00:21:56,539
The long, lean, and lanky
louisiana larruper.

483
00:21:56,566 --> 00:21:57,798
-Jake roberts is finding out
right now

484
00:21:57,859 --> 00:21:59,025
This is a
rough-and-tough sport.

485
00:21:59,143 --> 00:22:00,693
This is a man's sport.

486
00:22:00,811 --> 00:22:02,528
He looks like a little boy
out there right now.

487
00:22:02,646 --> 00:22:04,638
-I had no business in the ring.

488
00:22:04,699 --> 00:22:07,441
I was absolutely horrible.

489
00:22:07,559 --> 00:22:09,885
-Oh, he's in trouble now.

490
00:22:09,912 --> 00:22:12,363
So it's roberts over the top.

491
00:22:12,481 --> 00:22:16,650
And that's a lot of beef
to go air freight.

492
00:22:16,711 --> 00:22:18,561
-Jake "the snake" is --

493
00:22:18,588 --> 00:22:22,155
Is physically not who you would
picture as a pro wrestler.

494
00:22:22,216 --> 00:22:24,717
-Roberts is in trouble now.
-Yes, he is.

495
00:22:24,835 --> 00:22:27,303
-I'm afraid this is a mismatch.

496
00:22:27,463 --> 00:22:29,963
♪♪

497
00:22:30,082 --> 00:22:34,134
-Stunk the place up
for two years.

498
00:22:34,253 --> 00:22:36,069
-Jake is trying to come out.

499
00:22:36,071 --> 00:22:38,472
-Jake was a
second-generation wrestler.

500
00:22:38,590 --> 00:22:41,067
And I think that says
a lot right there.

501
00:22:41,185 --> 00:22:43,903
When you grow up in
the business

502
00:22:44,021 --> 00:22:45,512
And you watch it all your life,

503
00:22:45,573 --> 00:22:50,242
You have a better grasp
of what works, what doesn't,

504
00:22:50,361 --> 00:22:52,352
And how you want to do it.

505
00:22:52,413 --> 00:22:55,748
♪♪

506
00:22:55,866 --> 00:22:58,400
And bit by bit,
I learned things.

507
00:22:58,461 --> 00:23:00,394
I picked up things.

508
00:23:00,421 --> 00:23:02,605
♪♪

509
00:23:02,632 --> 00:23:06,917
I used to find myself going to
little, bitty towns, man.

510
00:23:07,035 --> 00:23:10,020
You know, they run once a year.

511
00:23:10,022 --> 00:23:13,099
Of course, the guys today
would never go to those towns,

512
00:23:13,217 --> 00:23:15,208
But back then, you know,
the small promotions

513
00:23:15,269 --> 00:23:16,376
Did their things.

514
00:23:16,437 --> 00:23:23,100
♪♪

515
00:23:23,218 --> 00:23:28,772
-It was really a traveling act,
constantly.

516
00:23:28,891 --> 00:23:33,135
People would jump in a car
after the matches.

517
00:23:33,295 --> 00:23:35,696
Three or four guys
get in the car.

518
00:23:35,856 --> 00:23:39,808
Very often, you know,
a case of beer in the back seat.

519
00:23:39,836 --> 00:23:42,044
Drink in the back seat while
telling stories

520
00:23:42,204 --> 00:23:45,105
And making the towns,
as they say.

521
00:23:45,224 --> 00:23:46,857
-He's got roberts down,
and it may be over.

522
00:23:46,859 --> 00:23:48,283
-Dave picks him up.

523
00:23:48,344 --> 00:23:50,076
[ thump ]
hard slam down on the mat.

524
00:23:50,096 --> 00:23:52,412
[ bell dings ]

525
00:23:52,473 --> 00:23:55,783
-You're in chicago tonight,
then you're in milwaukee

526
00:23:55,810 --> 00:23:57,977
The next night,
green bay the next night,

527
00:23:58,095 --> 00:24:00,279
Then you drive
all the way back to chicago.

528
00:24:00,281 --> 00:24:02,531
-He can strike with
the swiftness of a rattler.

529
00:24:02,533 --> 00:24:04,291
There's no question about that.

530
00:24:04,318 --> 00:24:06,393
-I would wake up some mornings,
and I'd have to look

531
00:24:06,512 --> 00:24:10,914
At the nameplate on the phone
to remember what city I was in.

532
00:24:10,916 --> 00:24:13,058
'cause it was go, go, go,
go, go, go, go.

533
00:24:13,077 --> 00:24:15,161
-Night after night after night,

534
00:24:15,279 --> 00:24:17,588
Spending more time
with your co-workers

535
00:24:17,590 --> 00:24:19,773
Than you would ever possibly
get to spend with your family.

536
00:24:19,834 --> 00:24:25,387
♪♪

537
00:24:25,389 --> 00:24:28,857
-You reach a point
in wrestling that you get it.

538
00:24:28,885 --> 00:24:32,011
It finally clicks up here,
what you're doing.

539
00:24:32,129 --> 00:24:38,350
And once you figure it out,
you realize how beautiful it is.

540
00:24:38,469 --> 00:24:40,769
It is art.

541
00:24:40,930 --> 00:24:44,589
-Big daddy ritter,
jake roberts.

542
00:24:44,609 --> 00:24:47,209
-Wrestlers are the greatest
actors of all time.

543
00:24:47,236 --> 00:24:51,197
-Roberts has got
the sleeper on him!

544
00:24:51,315 --> 00:24:54,474
-Because we do it every night
and we do it absolutely perfect.

545
00:24:54,535 --> 00:24:56,443
-Riding him down!

546
00:24:56,562 --> 00:25:00,113
-Because if we don't,
the fan won't buy it.

547
00:25:00,232 --> 00:25:01,782
[ bell dings ]
-roberts has won the belt!

548
00:25:01,784 --> 00:25:05,485
The place is totally wild!

549
00:25:05,505 --> 00:25:08,455
People are going totally
out of their skulls!

550
00:25:08,574 --> 00:25:11,717
[ cheers and applause ]

551
00:25:11,835 --> 00:25:17,981
-I could argue
that jake the snake's ddt

552
00:25:17,983 --> 00:25:19,975
Is the greatest
finishing move of all time.

553
00:25:21,537 --> 00:25:23,136
-Oh!
-Ddt!

554
00:25:23,255 --> 00:25:25,322
Ddt, right there!

555
00:25:25,324 --> 00:25:27,608
-The ddt is number one
with a bullet.

556
00:25:28,461 --> 00:25:29,776
-The ddt!

557
00:25:29,895 --> 00:25:31,311
-The brain buster!

558
00:25:31,430 --> 00:25:33,330
-Drives that head hard
to the mat.

559
00:25:33,332 --> 00:25:35,832
Oh, and he just can't
get up from that.

560
00:25:35,834 --> 00:25:38,168
-It's not easy to think up
a new move in wrestling,

561
00:25:38,170 --> 00:25:39,653
And especially even back then.

562
00:25:39,771 --> 00:25:41,338
Like, I mean, there was guys
like me going,

563
00:25:41,340 --> 00:25:42,656
"geez, I wish
I could think up a new move."

564
00:25:42,774 --> 00:25:44,041
-Beautiful. Ohh!

565
00:25:44,159 --> 00:25:46,101
[ cheers and applause ]

566
00:25:46,128 --> 00:25:48,587
Did you see that?
That was like a pile driver.

567
00:25:48,706 --> 00:25:53,942
-Well, I was wrestling a guy
called the grappler.

568
00:25:53,970 --> 00:25:56,111
This masked devil.

569
00:25:56,138 --> 00:25:58,447
And we had these little things
that we'd do each other,

570
00:25:58,474 --> 00:25:59,723
And one of those things was,

571
00:25:59,842 --> 00:26:01,950
I would have his head
stuck in here

572
00:26:01,978 --> 00:26:04,678
And I'd just be wrenching
his neck, you know?

573
00:26:04,796 --> 00:26:09,032
So this night, he goes
to push me into the corner,

574
00:26:09,034 --> 00:26:12,177
And he steps on my left foot.

575
00:26:12,196 --> 00:26:17,591
And when he did, that caused me
to fall flat on my ass.

576
00:26:17,593 --> 00:26:21,445
When we fell and his head hit
that mat, people just popped.

577
00:26:21,563 --> 00:26:23,363
When I say "popped," that means
jump out of their seats

578
00:26:23,482 --> 00:26:25,583
Up and down,
screaming, "yeah, man.

579
00:26:25,701 --> 00:26:29,052
That's the greatest move ever!"

580
00:26:29,054 --> 00:26:30,145
And they're absolutely right.

581
00:26:30,172 --> 00:26:32,172
It was the greatest move ever.

582
00:26:32,291 --> 00:26:33,882
-Oh!
-Did you see that?

583
00:26:35,044 --> 00:26:37,595
-And he just dropped him!
And listen to this crowd!

584
00:26:37,713 --> 00:26:39,229
They love him.

585
00:26:39,231 --> 00:26:40,681
-Now, here's the hard part.

586
00:26:40,799 --> 00:26:43,475
I got to come up
with a cool name.

587
00:26:43,594 --> 00:26:48,163
I mean, if it's not a cool name,
the hold is worthless, okay?

588
00:26:48,190 --> 00:26:52,559
And I went to breakfast
one morning in tampa, florida,

589
00:26:52,678 --> 00:26:55,412
And picked up
a<i> usa today</i> newspaper.

590
00:26:55,414 --> 00:26:58,248
And the front page, big letters,

591
00:26:58,250 --> 00:27:02,077
"ddt outlawed by
u.S. Government."

592
00:27:04,573 --> 00:27:05,939
And I looked at that
and I'm like,

593
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:09,943
"that's the name
right there -- ddt. Yeah."

594
00:27:10,004 --> 00:27:12,304
[ crowd chanting "ddt" ]
-there goes a ddt,

595
00:27:12,306 --> 00:27:14,097
The most vicious hold I think
I've ever seen in wrestling.

596
00:27:14,099 --> 00:27:16,574
-You're back there playing
cowboys and indians.

597
00:27:16,594 --> 00:27:19,027
I tell you what I'm doing.
I'm dealing with "1984."

598
00:27:19,055 --> 00:27:21,438
When you put that ddt on them,
jordan,

599
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:23,273
It's just like nuclear holocaust
coming down, man,

600
00:27:23,275 --> 00:27:24,591
Because it's over.

601
00:27:24,710 --> 00:27:26,518
[ cheers and applause ]

602
00:27:26,637 --> 00:27:29,337
-The crowd calling for the ddt.

603
00:27:29,398 --> 00:27:31,114
-They would start
the "ddt, ddt,"

604
00:27:31,116 --> 00:27:34,910
And he'd get ready and give us
the finger like he did.

605
00:27:34,912 --> 00:27:37,604
It was more of a communication
to make sure

606
00:27:37,723 --> 00:27:41,325
The crowd was really locked in
and involved with what he did.

607
00:27:41,443 --> 00:27:43,068
-Listen to the people!

608
00:27:43,186 --> 00:27:44,995
They're standing!
They want it!

609
00:27:45,114 --> 00:27:46,872
They want the ddt!

610
00:27:47,875 --> 00:27:49,541
And they're gonna get it!

611
00:27:49,660 --> 00:27:51,968
Jake delivers the ddt!

612
00:27:51,970 --> 00:27:54,337
Nobody gets up from that one.

613
00:27:54,339 --> 00:27:55,789
-Oh, yeah.

614
00:27:55,907 --> 00:27:58,801
Jake the snake with the ddt
and the victory.

615
00:27:58,961 --> 00:28:01,044
Look at this crowd.

616
00:28:01,163 --> 00:28:03,055
There you see
the man of the ddt.

617
00:28:03,173 --> 00:28:06,074
[ cheers and applause ]

618
00:28:06,235 --> 00:28:10,646
♪♪

619
00:28:10,806 --> 00:28:16,785
-In 1986,
he signed with the wwe.

620
00:28:16,787 --> 00:28:18,995
Now jake the snake arrives.

621
00:28:18,997 --> 00:28:21,815
And I think for most people,

622
00:28:21,933 --> 00:28:25,335
This is when jake the snake
became a household name.

623
00:28:25,337 --> 00:28:27,487
-Wrestling's not rocket science.

624
00:28:27,606 --> 00:28:29,664
Come on.

625
00:28:29,666 --> 00:28:31,750
It doesn't matter if
they love you or they hate you.

626
00:28:33,871 --> 00:28:36,714
As long as they remember you.

627
00:28:42,020 --> 00:28:45,113
-I was wrestling
in mid-south sports in louisiana

628
00:28:45,141 --> 00:28:48,708
And oklahoma, texas,
and, um, the phone rang.

629
00:28:48,769 --> 00:28:51,178
I picked it up,
and it was vince mcmahon.

630
00:28:51,296 --> 00:28:53,713
♪♪

631
00:28:53,774 --> 00:28:56,216
And he said, "can you get
on a plane and come up here?

632
00:28:56,277 --> 00:28:57,985
We need to talk."

633
00:29:00,022 --> 00:29:01,872
Damn right.

634
00:29:01,874 --> 00:29:03,465
"who's paying for the trip?"

635
00:29:03,492 --> 00:29:05,041
"well, we'll pay for it."
"okay, no problem."

636
00:29:05,043 --> 00:29:08,211
I'd never had a promoter
offer me a flight.

637
00:29:08,213 --> 00:29:13,033
He comes in and he says,
"well, we're gonna dress you up

638
00:29:13,151 --> 00:29:18,814
In lime-green or
royal-purple tights, spandex."

639
00:29:18,841 --> 00:29:21,650
[ chuckles ]
I didn't say anything yet.

640
00:29:21,677 --> 00:29:24,961
And he said, "we're gonna
put you in lace-up,

641
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:28,556
Knee-high snakeskin boots."

642
00:29:28,558 --> 00:29:31,310
And right before
I throw the flag

643
00:29:31,428 --> 00:29:34,554
And say, "I'm not interested
in doing this s---,"

644
00:29:34,673 --> 00:29:38,333
Vince wrote some numbers
on a piece of paper

645
00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:42,488
And gingerly slipped them
over to me.

646
00:29:42,606 --> 00:29:45,173
And at the same time, he said,

647
00:29:45,334 --> 00:29:48,568
"and carry
a large 12-foot python."

648
00:29:48,687 --> 00:29:51,980
♪♪

649
00:29:51,982 --> 00:29:58,411
Me being severely
scared of snakes...

650
00:29:58,530 --> 00:30:03,600
That fear went out the window
when I seen the zeros

651
00:30:03,602 --> 00:30:04,784
On that piece of paper.

652
00:30:04,845 --> 00:30:08,697
♪♪

653
00:30:08,724 --> 00:30:13,793
I'd never seen that many zeros
on a check towards me.

654
00:30:13,854 --> 00:30:18,190
And I was blown away
to the point

655
00:30:18,308 --> 00:30:23,028
That I immediately took his
bad idea and made sense of it.

656
00:30:23,146 --> 00:30:25,105
-I mean, if you're going to
go with the name jake the snake,

657
00:30:25,223 --> 00:30:29,276
You got to figure mr. Mcmahon
is gonna put a snake in your --

658
00:30:29,394 --> 00:30:31,203
In your hands.

659
00:30:31,321 --> 00:30:33,180
♪♪

660
00:30:33,298 --> 00:30:41,563
-From stone mountain, georgia,
jake "the snake" roberts!

661
00:30:41,590 --> 00:30:44,550
-Jake "the snake" roberts
making his debut here this week

662
00:30:44,668 --> 00:30:46,343
In the world wrestling
entertainment.

663
00:30:46,461 --> 00:30:48,870
And we know what's in the bag.

664
00:30:48,931 --> 00:30:50,906
-The only time I'm not afraid

665
00:30:50,933 --> 00:30:53,300
Of those damn snakes
is when the bell rings.

666
00:30:53,418 --> 00:30:55,501
[ bell dings ]

667
00:30:55,563 --> 00:30:56,954
-Jake "the snake" roberts,
newcomer here

668
00:30:57,072 --> 00:30:58,413
To the world wrestling
entertainment,

669
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:00,340
But certainly not
to the squared circle.

670
00:31:00,501 --> 00:31:01,725
-Oh, what a slam.

671
00:31:01,843 --> 00:31:03,159
He just drove him
into the canvas.

672
00:31:03,161 --> 00:31:06,646
-This man is known worldwide.
Tough competitor.

673
00:31:06,765 --> 00:31:08,240
-He is gonna be a force
to reckon with here

674
00:31:08,358 --> 00:31:10,150
In the world wrestling
entertainment.

675
00:31:10,268 --> 00:31:12,444
-There's that patented move by
the snake called the ddt.

676
00:31:12,562 --> 00:31:14,321
[ bell dings ]

677
00:31:14,439 --> 00:31:16,748
Look at him slithering
over towards that bag.

678
00:31:16,750 --> 00:31:18,325
[ screaming ]
-wow.

679
00:31:18,443 --> 00:31:22,938
-Oh, look at the size of it.
Holy mackerel.

680
00:31:22,965 --> 00:31:24,590
-He's not gonna put
it on top of him, is he?

681
00:31:24,708 --> 00:31:26,625
-Yes, he is.

682
00:31:26,627 --> 00:31:28,576
-Oh, my. Look at it.

683
00:31:28,637 --> 00:31:30,596
-If that isn't an insult,
I've never seen one.

684
00:31:30,714 --> 00:31:32,497
-Huh? Come on. Come on.

685
00:31:32,516 --> 00:31:34,783
-In no way, shape, or form
that should be allowed

686
00:31:34,810 --> 00:31:36,810
In the world
of professional wrestling.

687
00:31:38,838 --> 00:31:40,864
-The snake was incredible.
It was shocking.

688
00:31:40,866 --> 00:31:43,366
-Don't do that.
-It was memorable.

689
00:31:43,368 --> 00:31:46,235
You couldn't take your eyes
off of it.

690
00:31:46,237 --> 00:31:49,865
It's legitimately one of
the absolute best gimmicks

691
00:31:50,025 --> 00:31:53,193
Ever in pro wrestling.

692
00:31:53,311 --> 00:31:55,028
-Bite him, damien. Bite him.

693
00:31:55,146 --> 00:31:57,172
-If you keep playing
with snakes,

694
00:31:57,174 --> 00:31:59,791
You got to expect one thing.

695
00:31:59,910 --> 00:32:01,668
You're gonna get bit.

696
00:32:01,787 --> 00:32:03,128
-Give me a break, referee.

697
00:32:03,246 --> 00:32:05,088
Don't let him do that.

698
00:32:05,207 --> 00:32:09,784
-No wonder they call him
jake "the snake" roberts.

699
00:32:09,945 --> 00:32:12,154
-He literally would
smother people

700
00:32:12,181 --> 00:32:18,267
And strangle them with a snake,
with a python on national tv.

701
00:32:18,269 --> 00:32:21,045
-This thing weighed
almost 200 pounds.

702
00:32:21,065 --> 00:32:22,981
And jake would just --

703
00:32:23,100 --> 00:32:26,001
Just pick that thing up and
sling it and hit you with it.

704
00:32:26,028 --> 00:32:28,052
It was like hitting you
with a baseball bat,

705
00:32:28,072 --> 00:32:30,580
With that snake.

706
00:32:30,582 --> 00:32:31,564
-The first time he got
ricky "the dragon" steamboat

707
00:32:31,683 --> 00:32:33,008
Was a big one.

708
00:32:33,035 --> 00:32:34,417
-Oh, he's jamming it
in his mouth!

709
00:32:34,419 --> 00:32:35,735
I can't believe it!

710
00:32:35,854 --> 00:32:37,237
-Why do I put the snake

711
00:32:37,355 --> 00:32:39,081
Across somebody's body
and let him crawl?

712
00:32:39,241 --> 00:32:41,458
[ laughs ]
I get off on it.

713
00:32:41,576 --> 00:32:43,168
Don't you?

714
00:32:43,286 --> 00:32:45,745
-Come on, referee.
This is despicable.

715
00:32:45,864 --> 00:32:48,581
-He just loves it.
Look at the snake going to him.

716
00:32:48,742 --> 00:32:51,343
-It becomes a big part
of what people want to see.

717
00:32:51,461 --> 00:32:53,578
I mean, they just --
they would go crazy.

718
00:32:53,597 --> 00:32:55,389
[ cheers and applause ]
-oh, my goodness, damien!

719
00:32:55,507 --> 00:32:58,591
-They'd go crazy just seeing
the bag in the corner.

720
00:32:58,710 --> 00:33:00,519
-Oh, look at this.
-Oh, my gosh.

721
00:33:00,637 --> 00:33:03,705
-Wanting to get out
of the bag already.

722
00:33:03,732 --> 00:33:07,592
-At wrestlemania ii, he
had a dude foaming at the mouth.

723
00:33:07,611 --> 00:33:09,677
-Imagine the constricting
of the snake.

724
00:33:09,738 --> 00:33:11,029
-Oh, look at that!

725
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:17,293
-I really tried to stay away
from the snake because,

726
00:33:17,295 --> 00:33:21,873
You know, jake would always talk
to the snake and kiss the snake.

727
00:33:23,844 --> 00:33:26,435
Andre was scared to death
of the snake.

728
00:33:26,437 --> 00:33:29,339
-Andre the giant looks like
he's terrified of that snake.

729
00:33:29,458 --> 00:33:31,399
-[imitating andre the giant]
"no, no snake."

730
00:33:31,427 --> 00:33:34,127
-Look at this.
Andre backing off.

731
00:33:34,245 --> 00:33:35,378
-When andre had to work
with him,

732
00:33:35,497 --> 00:33:36,972
It was kind of funny to watch

733
00:33:37,132 --> 00:33:38,765
Because he was scared to death
of the snake.

734
00:33:39,810 --> 00:33:42,377
-Oh, no!
A collar on the giant!

735
00:33:42,379 --> 00:33:45,080
Look at this!
It's choking andre the giant!

736
00:33:45,107 --> 00:33:47,140
Andre going down.

737
00:33:47,258 --> 00:33:49,634
And jake
putting damien all over him.

738
00:33:49,653 --> 00:33:51,937
Andre clutching his chest.

739
00:33:51,939 --> 00:33:53,563
Andre is just terrified.

740
00:33:53,681 --> 00:33:56,516
He's terrified of the snake.

741
00:33:56,535 --> 00:33:58,485
Jake "the snake" roberts
and damien

742
00:33:58,603 --> 00:34:01,596
Have really done a job
on andre the giant.

743
00:34:01,623 --> 00:34:05,584
Standing triumphant
is jake "the snake" roberts!

744
00:34:05,702 --> 00:34:08,386
[ cheers and applause ]

745
00:34:08,504 --> 00:34:10,513
-What'd you think
of this matchup here?

746
00:34:10,515 --> 00:34:11,848
-Jake, you're the best, jake!

747
00:34:11,850 --> 00:34:13,216
-What'd you think
of this matchup?

748
00:34:13,335 --> 00:34:15,518
-He's the best. Jake's the best.
Jake's the best.

749
00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:17,112
-Yeah, I guess he's going
to say it all.

750
00:34:17,139 --> 00:34:18,930
As you can see,
not a bad seat in the house.

751
00:34:19,049 --> 00:34:20,432
Back to you, gorilla.

752
00:34:20,550 --> 00:34:22,875
♪♪

753
00:34:22,895 --> 00:34:25,711
-Everybody hated that snake.

754
00:34:25,831 --> 00:34:29,423
Jake would just dump it
on the floor in the shower.

755
00:34:29,485 --> 00:34:31,184
It would just --
people would go in the shower,

756
00:34:31,302 --> 00:34:32,535
And the snake
would just be there.

757
00:34:32,537 --> 00:34:33,945
-And guys would just freak out

758
00:34:34,064 --> 00:34:35,797
And come running out
of the shower naked.

759
00:34:35,824 --> 00:34:37,707
-And then jake would have
a heck of time

760
00:34:37,709 --> 00:34:40,485
Trying to get the snake
in the bag after that.

761
00:34:40,603 --> 00:34:42,362
-Unfortunately,
from the locker room,

762
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:45,924
I would have to put it in a bag
and put it in a trunk

763
00:34:45,926 --> 00:34:47,142
And then carry it to the car.

764
00:34:47,302 --> 00:34:48,901
And then once I got
to the hotel,

765
00:34:48,921 --> 00:34:52,631
I had to put it in the bathroom,
little water in the tub,

766
00:34:52,749 --> 00:34:57,052
And hope like hell he doesn't
break that sink off the wall

767
00:34:57,212 --> 00:34:59,546
Or the toilet off the floor,
which they've done.

768
00:34:59,664 --> 00:35:03,182
♪♪

769
00:35:03,302 --> 00:35:04,993
-Well, he's lucky
he's got damien,

770
00:35:05,020 --> 00:35:07,621
Because that's probably
the only friend this man has.

771
00:35:07,623 --> 00:35:08,972
♪♪

772
00:35:09,090 --> 00:35:12,550
-Every good wrestler knows
how to walk the walk.

773
00:35:12,569 --> 00:35:14,169
Hell, if they didn't,

774
00:35:14,196 --> 00:35:16,762
They wouldn't be allowed
to get in the damn ring.

775
00:35:16,824 --> 00:35:20,283
Great wrestlers, well,
they answer the real question --

776
00:35:20,402 --> 00:35:22,585
Can you talk the talk?

777
00:35:22,587 --> 00:35:24,404
You want to play something real?

778
00:35:24,522 --> 00:35:26,081
Then you get real
close and listen.

779
00:35:30,662 --> 00:35:31,545
[ cheers and applause ]

780
00:35:31,663 --> 00:35:33,613
-Good guys, bad guys --

781
00:35:33,674 --> 00:35:36,133
In wrestling,
you're one or the other.

782
00:35:36,251 --> 00:35:39,118
I was both.
[ laughs ]

783
00:35:39,179 --> 00:35:40,853
You know, it's kind of
like that nursery rhyme.

784
00:35:40,855 --> 00:35:45,666
You know, when I was bad,
I was very, very bad.

785
00:35:45,827 --> 00:35:49,396
When I was good,
I was still f------ bad.

786
00:35:49,514 --> 00:35:50,930
Very, very bad.

787
00:35:51,049 --> 00:35:58,546
♪♪

788
00:35:58,574 --> 00:36:00,790
-Now, this jake roberts
is a very cruel man.

789
00:36:00,792 --> 00:36:02,792
I doubt if this man
even has any feelings.

790
00:36:02,794 --> 00:36:05,461
-My goodness, this man
causes all kind of controversy

791
00:36:05,463 --> 00:36:08,098
Every place he goes,
jake the snake.

792
00:36:08,100 --> 00:36:10,876
-Look at this.
Just measuring him here.

793
00:36:10,994 --> 00:36:13,803
Oh, he got caught right
in the middle of that move.

794
00:36:13,805 --> 00:36:19,626
-He was a storyteller,
and I think that's so valuable

795
00:36:19,744 --> 00:36:23,071
To being a good performer
is being a good storyteller.

796
00:36:23,098 --> 00:36:25,307
-You heard heenan yell,
"he's out, he's out."

797
00:36:25,467 --> 00:36:27,150
-Well, he's not out yet.

798
00:36:27,152 --> 00:36:29,168
And jake always told stories,

799
00:36:29,229 --> 00:36:31,170
And I-I think he was one
of the greatest at it.

800
00:36:31,231 --> 00:36:33,448
-Oh, look at that!

801
00:36:33,450 --> 00:36:35,007
-Jake "the snake" roberts
is fired up.

802
00:36:35,168 --> 00:36:37,235
Look at the revenge
in those eyes.

803
00:36:39,305 --> 00:36:42,515
-Jake was such a master villain.

804
00:36:42,576 --> 00:36:44,016
You know, and I always think
of the guy tying the girl

805
00:36:44,077 --> 00:36:45,735
Up on the railroad tracks,
I'm thinking of a guy

806
00:36:45,853 --> 00:36:49,380
That looks something like
jake roberts,

807
00:36:49,382 --> 00:36:54,527
With a dirty little mustache
and the creepy little eyebrows.

808
00:36:54,588 --> 00:36:56,362
And I don't know if you could
come up with very many villains

809
00:36:56,423 --> 00:36:59,031
In -- in history that were as
good as jake roberts.

810
00:36:59,092 --> 00:37:01,993
-And look at that maneuver!
Oh, can you believe that?

811
00:37:02,012 --> 00:37:04,721
-You get jake the snake hot,
he is vicious.

812
00:37:04,839 --> 00:37:07,432
He'll strike.

813
00:37:07,550 --> 00:37:11,027
-Man, there is nothing better
than getting the reaction

814
00:37:11,029 --> 00:37:13,955
You want from the fans when you
do the simplest of things

815
00:37:13,982 --> 00:37:16,349
Or you do the meanest of things.

816
00:37:16,467 --> 00:37:18,777
♪♪

817
00:37:18,895 --> 00:37:21,655
-One --
-teasing them.

818
00:37:23,951 --> 00:37:25,358
And I don't want to do that.

819
00:37:25,476 --> 00:37:27,727
"oh, you son of a bitch."

820
00:37:27,788 --> 00:37:31,063
They'd get so pissed off at me,
man, for not doing it

821
00:37:31,124 --> 00:37:32,882
Because I teased them.

822
00:37:32,884 --> 00:37:35,234
You know, if you're gonna
offer it to somebody,

823
00:37:35,295 --> 00:37:37,370
You got to give it to them.

824
00:37:37,530 --> 00:37:41,741
So for me to pull it away
and not do it was a heel move.

825
00:37:41,802 --> 00:37:44,227
I cheated them.

826
00:37:44,229 --> 00:37:46,912
I robbed them of their moment.

827
00:37:46,974 --> 00:37:49,199
-You hate the bad guy.

828
00:37:49,201 --> 00:37:51,917
You love the good guy.

829
00:37:51,979 --> 00:37:53,569
Jake actually redefined that.

830
00:37:53,571 --> 00:37:55,163
-You know, jake --
he likes to turn it

831
00:37:55,190 --> 00:37:57,240
Into a fight, doesn't he?

832
00:37:57,242 --> 00:37:59,334
You know, he's got a lot of
good natural wrestling ability,

833
00:37:59,361 --> 00:38:01,093
But the guy likes to fight.

834
00:38:01,154 --> 00:38:02,928
-He likes to take it any way
you want to take it.

835
00:38:02,990 --> 00:38:04,990
Roughhouse style,
that's the way he'll do it.

836
00:38:05,108 --> 00:38:08,968
Scientific wrestling,
he'll carry you there, too.

837
00:38:08,996 --> 00:38:11,587
-Jake is the first anti-hero.

838
00:38:11,589 --> 00:38:15,825
-Jake "the snake" roberts!

839
00:38:15,943 --> 00:38:19,912
-"stone cold" steve austin
is an anti-hero.

840
00:38:20,073 --> 00:38:23,525
-Diamond dallas page
was an anti-hero.

841
00:38:23,685 --> 00:38:24,709
You know, everybody's
got something

842
00:38:24,827 --> 00:38:27,103
In their bag from jake.

843
00:38:27,105 --> 00:38:29,714
♪♪

844
00:38:29,716 --> 00:38:32,258
-I've got numbness
in my fingers,

845
00:38:32,418 --> 00:38:35,127
But the stiffness and
the numbness and the weakness

846
00:38:35,188 --> 00:38:38,464
Are nothing
compared to the hatred

847
00:38:38,525 --> 00:38:42,618
That sits behind
these cold eyes, my man, or...

848
00:38:42,620 --> 00:38:44,287
[ cheers and applause ]

849
00:38:44,289 --> 00:38:49,050
...The fire -- the fire that
spews ashes out of my brain each

850
00:38:49,077 --> 00:38:51,143
And every time I think of you.

851
00:38:51,204 --> 00:38:54,271
-I don't think anyone ever
has been better

852
00:38:54,291 --> 00:38:55,815
At talking on a microphone

853
00:38:55,876 --> 00:38:58,560
In pro wrestling
than jake "the snake" roberts.

854
00:38:58,587 --> 00:39:00,061
-You're bringing elizabeth
to the ring

855
00:39:00,088 --> 00:39:02,972
To watch
what you're gonna do to me.

856
00:39:02,974 --> 00:39:05,066
Think about this.

857
00:39:05,093 --> 00:39:07,143
When you look down at your wife,

858
00:39:07,145 --> 00:39:09,479
After I've done
what I'm going to do,

859
00:39:09,481 --> 00:39:11,147
What are you going to do?

860
00:39:11,149 --> 00:39:12,982
Wake her up.

861
00:39:12,984 --> 00:39:17,354
Princess, the glass slipper
doesn't fit this time.

862
00:39:19,107 --> 00:39:20,823
-It's all his eyes.

863
00:39:20,825 --> 00:39:24,510
It's -- it's just the way jake
looks at the camera.

864
00:39:24,571 --> 00:39:27,238
Jake "the snake"
was the first wrestler

865
00:39:27,357 --> 00:39:31,016
I ever saw
who didn't need to yell.

866
00:39:31,078 --> 00:39:34,003
-I'm not your average
local yokel from k-mart.

867
00:39:34,005 --> 00:39:37,006
No, I'm a little bit different.
Yeah.

868
00:39:37,008 --> 00:39:40,101
I think I see things
that people don't normally see,

869
00:39:40,128 --> 00:39:43,771
The little things that
mean so much,

870
00:39:43,799 --> 00:39:48,534
You know, how to look
at a camera and glare or smile.

871
00:39:48,595 --> 00:39:51,613
You see, I've got
something you can't handle.

872
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:54,099
You or anybody else.

873
00:39:54,217 --> 00:39:56,509
It's ddt.

874
00:39:56,627 --> 00:39:58,177
So, what are you gonna do,
snowman?

875
00:39:58,296 --> 00:40:00,196
Melt.

876
00:40:00,198 --> 00:40:03,458
I learned that as a kid,
how to manipulate emotions

877
00:40:03,485 --> 00:40:06,536
By your facial expressions.

878
00:40:06,538 --> 00:40:07,779
'cause there were lots of times

879
00:40:07,897 --> 00:40:11,524
That I had to, uh,
spin the wheel

880
00:40:11,642 --> 00:40:13,876
To keep from being abused.

881
00:40:13,878 --> 00:40:16,362
So I learned to
lie at a very young age.

882
00:40:16,481 --> 00:40:18,564
And I know there's only one way
to serve up revenge.

883
00:40:18,625 --> 00:40:20,550
But everybody's a fine cook.

884
00:40:20,552 --> 00:40:23,128
Mama can make grits, and mama
can make biscuits and gravy.

885
00:40:23,246 --> 00:40:25,721
But the only way you can serve
up revenge is to serve it cold.

886
00:40:25,723 --> 00:40:27,649
-I envied him.

887
00:40:27,676 --> 00:40:33,154
Like, I really wished I
had that ability to turn it off

888
00:40:33,181 --> 00:40:37,233
And on like he did,
to become this --

889
00:40:37,235 --> 00:40:40,495
Morph into this character,
good guy or bad guy.

890
00:40:40,522 --> 00:40:44,666
-Anything that I do
is your fault.

891
00:40:44,693 --> 00:40:49,170
Snake in the corner -- trust me.

892
00:40:49,197 --> 00:40:51,322
Trust me.

893
00:40:51,441 --> 00:40:53,007
-He had a different cadence.

894
00:40:53,034 --> 00:40:56,252
You know, it was almost like
a mystique to him

895
00:40:56,254 --> 00:40:58,087
That he would
almost hypnotize people.

896
00:40:58,089 --> 00:41:00,606
-It's pretty simple to me.

897
00:41:00,667 --> 00:41:04,093
Some people claim to be things
that they're not.

898
00:41:04,095 --> 00:41:05,687
Me, I've always claimed
to be a snake.

899
00:41:05,714 --> 00:41:07,855
I never said I could
walk on water.

900
00:41:07,883 --> 00:41:10,008
I never said that
I could part the sea.

901
00:41:10,126 --> 00:41:12,435
I never said I could feed
the masses with a loaf of bread.

902
00:41:12,437 --> 00:41:14,362
But, then again, I never tried.

903
00:41:14,389 --> 00:41:17,365
-I think the biggest thing
that came from jake

904
00:41:17,392 --> 00:41:21,202
Was just how evil
and how sinister he was.

905
00:41:21,229 --> 00:41:23,446
-You know, what a wicked web
we can weave

906
00:41:23,448 --> 00:41:24,780
When first we labor to deceive.

907
00:41:24,782 --> 00:41:27,041
Now, what I'm telling you
is this.

908
00:41:27,068 --> 00:41:29,544
I've always said I was
on the other side of the fence.

909
00:41:29,571 --> 00:41:31,303
And I ask you --
oh, yeah, that's where

910
00:41:31,364 --> 00:41:33,364
You're at, too --
you're right with me.

911
00:41:33,483 --> 00:41:35,291
You can't ride the edge,
brother, like I can.

912
00:41:35,293 --> 00:41:37,552
That razor's too sharp for you.

913
00:41:37,579 --> 00:41:38,945
So you think about this.

914
00:41:39,063 --> 00:41:41,647
At wrestlemania,
I'm gonna get what I want.

915
00:41:41,708 --> 00:41:43,148
-I was in a room
watching jake roberts

916
00:41:43,210 --> 00:41:46,485
Do promos
in front of vince mcmahon.

917
00:41:46,546 --> 00:41:49,305
And I can remember vince
just going crazy

918
00:41:49,307 --> 00:41:51,216
At how good jake's promos were.

919
00:41:53,127 --> 00:41:57,663
-Million dollar man, you stood
up so proud and you told me,

920
00:41:57,724 --> 00:41:59,315
"if you want
that million-dollar belt,

921
00:41:59,317 --> 00:42:02,060
Jake 'the snake' roberts,
you got to come and get it."

922
00:42:02,178 --> 00:42:05,488
-Charisma --
you can't teach it to anybody.

923
00:42:05,490 --> 00:42:07,490
You either have it or you don't.

924
00:42:07,492 --> 00:42:09,234
He's got that savvy.

925
00:42:09,352 --> 00:42:11,677
I can't -- I don't know
how to put it in any other term.

926
00:42:11,738 --> 00:42:13,229
-You see,
damien and I don't forget.

927
00:42:13,347 --> 00:42:16,165
We remember all the times
you made people grovel

928
00:42:16,167 --> 00:42:17,925
For your money.

929
00:42:17,953 --> 00:42:20,928
These were people
far less fortunate than you,

930
00:42:20,956 --> 00:42:23,598
People who could use
your money for essentials.

931
00:42:23,625 --> 00:42:27,769
-He made you feel
when he was cutting a promo.

932
00:42:27,796 --> 00:42:30,529
He didn't make you feel like
he was talking to "mean" gene.

933
00:42:30,590 --> 00:42:32,348
He made you feel like he was
talking to you.

934
00:42:32,350 --> 00:42:35,351
-This time, you'll be the one
that's humbled.

935
00:42:35,353 --> 00:42:38,020
This time, you'll be the one
that's humiliated.

936
00:42:38,022 --> 00:42:42,433
And this time, you will be the
one that grovels for the money.

937
00:42:42,552 --> 00:42:44,952
And how appropriate...
[ chuckles ]

938
00:42:44,980 --> 00:42:48,380
...That the money you grovel for
is your very own.

939
00:42:48,441 --> 00:42:52,051
A victim of your own greed,

940
00:42:52,112 --> 00:42:56,281
Wallowing in the muck
of avarice.

941
00:42:58,309 --> 00:43:00,760
-Longfellow couldn't have
said it better.

942
00:43:00,787 --> 00:43:06,808
♪♪

943
00:43:06,835 --> 00:43:09,785
-All that glitters is not gold.

944
00:43:09,904 --> 00:43:11,220
Yeah, shakespeare wrote that.

945
00:43:11,222 --> 00:43:13,539
Whoa, how about that, hmm?

946
00:43:13,699 --> 00:43:16,834
He was a smart guy.

947
00:43:16,952 --> 00:43:20,896
-I saw my dad more on
television than I did in person.

948
00:43:20,898 --> 00:43:24,233
Do you --
can imagine what that's like?

949
00:43:24,235 --> 00:43:26,552
Do you know
how mortifying that is?

950
00:43:26,671 --> 00:43:28,121
-We knew what our dad did.

951
00:43:28,123 --> 00:43:32,450
We knew kind of the career
path he chose.

952
00:43:32,452 --> 00:43:36,029
But we didn't really ever know
where he was.

953
00:43:36,147 --> 00:43:37,730
-I didn't see him for years,
and especially

954
00:43:37,890 --> 00:43:41,801
When he first started
making a name for himself.

955
00:43:41,919 --> 00:43:45,129
I don't even know if he knew
that I was even training.

956
00:43:45,131 --> 00:43:49,517
It wasn't the typical
brother-sister family kumbaya,

957
00:43:49,544 --> 00:43:58,025
You know, and we just didn't --
there was no family support.

958
00:43:58,053 --> 00:44:02,955
-Most people, uh, parent when
their children are young.

959
00:44:03,016 --> 00:44:04,590
You know, my dad didn't.

960
00:44:04,709 --> 00:44:06,458
He didn't parent
when I was young.

961
00:44:06,519 --> 00:44:09,395
He was not around.

962
00:44:09,514 --> 00:44:13,816
So my parents weren't
around each other.

963
00:44:13,935 --> 00:44:16,602
They divorced when I was
in the second grade.

964
00:44:16,721 --> 00:44:20,956
-See, there's a price you pay
for being a wrestler.

965
00:44:20,958 --> 00:44:24,476
But jake did not see
it wasn't a life.

966
00:44:24,537 --> 00:44:27,463
I thought I was --
"I'm this big star now.

967
00:44:27,465 --> 00:44:29,481
I'm going to make my kids happy.

968
00:44:29,542 --> 00:44:32,018
Everybody's going to love me.
Everything's going to be fine."

969
00:44:32,045 --> 00:44:36,689
♪♪

970
00:44:36,716 --> 00:44:39,975
How foolish are we?

971
00:44:39,977 --> 00:44:41,644
You see, that dream
is beautiful, man,

972
00:44:41,646 --> 00:44:45,664
Till somebody
takes it away from you.

973
00:44:45,725 --> 00:44:49,519
♪♪

974
00:44:54,943 --> 00:44:57,301
-You know, if you haven't
got a story, you ain't got s---.

975
00:44:57,320 --> 00:45:01,163
-And there it is --
the million-dollar belt.

976
00:45:01,165 --> 00:45:04,083
-The double clothesline,
and the money goes flying!

977
00:45:04,085 --> 00:45:06,886
Mary tyler moore gets $100.
[ cheers and applause ]

978
00:45:07,004 --> 00:45:08,812
-Come on, face it --
a great rivalry,

979
00:45:08,832 --> 00:45:10,022
That makes a great story.

980
00:45:10,141 --> 00:45:11,340
-Aaah!

981
00:45:11,458 --> 00:45:13,826
-[ laughs ]

982
00:45:13,986 --> 00:45:16,971
-Jake "the snake" roberts
and alice cooper.

983
00:45:16,973 --> 00:45:18,989
And, boy, has this guy
got a score to settle.

984
00:45:19,008 --> 00:45:20,741
-Whoa!
He broke his guitar!

985
00:45:20,902 --> 00:45:24,262
We haven't seen the last
of this confrontation.

986
00:45:24,380 --> 00:45:26,556
-David and goliath,

987
00:45:26,674 --> 00:45:29,875
Apollo creed and rocky.

988
00:45:29,894 --> 00:45:33,412
You got to be
fighting something.

989
00:45:33,414 --> 00:45:36,015
-Ricky steamboat, you're gonna
be the first big test

990
00:45:36,133 --> 00:45:37,124
For jake "the snake"
in his career,

991
00:45:37,152 --> 00:45:38,609
And tonight's the night.

992
00:45:38,728 --> 00:45:40,511
-I've seen too many
good wrestlers go down

993
00:45:40,530 --> 00:45:42,288
And be humiliated by this man,

994
00:45:42,290 --> 00:45:43,948
Laying that snake
across the body.

995
00:45:44,066 --> 00:45:46,199
I won't tolerate that,
jake roberts.

996
00:45:46,201 --> 00:45:47,677
-Back with more of
Saturday night's main event,

997
00:45:47,795 --> 00:45:49,879
The match we have anticipated
coming up now --

998
00:45:49,881 --> 00:45:51,839
Ricky "the dragon" steamboat
squaring off

999
00:45:51,841 --> 00:45:54,358
Against the undefeated
jake "the snake" roberts.

1000
00:45:54,377 --> 00:45:56,085
-Well, they came to me,
and they said,

1001
00:45:56,204 --> 00:46:01,740
"jake, we want you to
ddt steamboat on the floor."

1002
00:46:01,801 --> 00:46:03,968
And I'm like, "holy s---,
I can't do that."

1003
00:46:04,086 --> 00:46:05,369
-Ricky "the dragon" steamboat,

1004
00:46:05,488 --> 00:46:07,213
One of the most popular athletes
in the

1005
00:46:07,331 --> 00:46:08,806
World wrestling entertainment
today, saying hello.

1006
00:46:08,925 --> 00:46:11,158
Wait a minute.
Off the rope now.

1007
00:46:11,186 --> 00:46:13,135
Ooh!
What a clothesline.

1008
00:46:13,254 --> 00:46:15,137
-They were like, "why not?"

1009
00:46:15,139 --> 00:46:18,073
I said, "'cause if I do it,
I'll kill him."

1010
00:46:18,075 --> 00:46:19,892
-The ricky steamboat
match was brutal.

1011
00:46:20,010 --> 00:46:21,694
-Another clothesline!
Down to the concrete.

1012
00:46:21,813 --> 00:46:25,006
-This isn't the modern era
outside the ring.

1013
00:46:25,033 --> 00:46:28,676
This is a cement floor
of an arena.

1014
00:46:28,703 --> 00:46:33,014
-"do you understand death?
This will kill him."

1015
00:46:33,041 --> 00:46:34,907
"well, that's what --"
you know, steamboat came to me,

1016
00:46:35,025 --> 00:46:37,743
And he's like,
"jake, do it to me.

1017
00:46:37,862 --> 00:46:41,022
I can protect myself.
I know what to do."

1018
00:46:41,049 --> 00:46:42,915
I said, "ricky, you don't."

1019
00:46:43,033 --> 00:46:44,884
I was right.
It damn near killed him.

1020
00:46:45,002 --> 00:46:49,597
-He's signaling for that ddt.
-He's not -- oh, no!

1021
00:46:49,757 --> 00:46:52,158
-Hey, steamboat,
that's using your head.

1022
00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:54,060
-Oh, my goodness.

1023
00:46:56,397 --> 00:46:59,540
-It sounded like a hand grenade
went off in my brain.

1024
00:46:59,567 --> 00:47:01,692
Exploded.

1025
00:47:01,811 --> 00:47:04,086
-Steamboat unconscious.

1026
00:47:04,088 --> 00:47:06,756
He has to be totally out of it.

1027
00:47:06,758 --> 00:47:09,474
-At the time,
I thought he was dead.

1028
00:47:09,536 --> 00:47:11,794
It was horrifying, man.

1029
00:47:11,796 --> 00:47:15,222
-Ricky steamboat,
back into the ring.

1030
00:47:15,250 --> 00:47:17,124
I think "the dragon" is out.

1031
00:47:18,786 --> 00:47:19,852
-[ imitates explosion ]

1032
00:47:19,854 --> 00:47:22,946
Swelled up,
had a bad concussion.

1033
00:47:23,066 --> 00:47:25,307
Was taken to the hospital.

1034
00:47:25,309 --> 00:47:27,159
The whole side of my face
blew up.

1035
00:47:27,220 --> 00:47:30,996
-Ricky steamboat
still unconscious.

1036
00:47:31,115 --> 00:47:34,650
-That ddt on the outside
of the ring was the first time

1037
00:47:34,652 --> 00:47:36,001
That you really saw

1038
00:47:36,062 --> 00:47:38,396
Just how vicious
jake "the snake" could be.

1039
00:47:38,514 --> 00:47:40,639
[ cheers and applause ]

1040
00:47:40,799 --> 00:47:42,316
-As cold as a razor blade,

1041
00:47:42,476 --> 00:47:45,403
As tight as a tourniquet
like the skin on a dying man.

1042
00:47:45,521 --> 00:47:48,480
Randy savage, the last time
I seen you,

1043
00:47:48,599 --> 00:47:51,258
You were flailing
like some helpless child.

1044
00:47:51,286 --> 00:47:53,260
-You think
that you're shakespeare.

1045
00:47:53,288 --> 00:47:54,820
You think that you're
so eloquent

1046
00:47:54,939 --> 00:47:57,156
When you talk, snake man.

1047
00:47:57,274 --> 00:47:59,100
But I don't like
anything about you.

1048
00:47:59,127 --> 00:48:01,744
-Look at that snake eyes,
and you'll see something so cold

1049
00:48:01,862 --> 00:48:03,754
And so devilish
and so deliberate.

1050
00:48:03,873 --> 00:48:06,015
Yes, he takes care
of what he has to,

1051
00:48:06,017 --> 00:48:08,517
Does what he has to,
just like me.

1052
00:48:08,519 --> 00:48:10,702
-Jake roberts
all over randy savage!

1053
00:48:10,722 --> 00:48:13,964
Tying him up in the ropes!

1054
00:48:14,083 --> 00:48:16,659
-Get out of there, macho!
Look at that!

1055
00:48:16,777 --> 00:48:18,769
-Roberts with a king cobra.

1056
00:48:18,888 --> 00:48:21,071
Keep it away from him!

1057
00:48:21,073 --> 00:48:22,648
-Wait a minute!
The snake is on him!

1058
00:48:22,767 --> 00:48:25,735
Oh, and the snake is biting him!
The snake is biting him!

1059
00:48:26,929 --> 00:48:30,022
-Mind blown.

1060
00:48:30,140 --> 00:48:33,725
-The snake is gnawing
on the arm of randy savage,

1061
00:48:33,745 --> 00:48:36,920
Who's helpless,
tied to the ropes!

1062
00:48:36,922 --> 00:48:39,290
-[ laughs ]
I remember before randy agreed

1063
00:48:39,408 --> 00:48:42,643
To do it
that the cobra bite jake first.

1064
00:48:42,670 --> 00:48:46,939
-All I can say is that snake
better be de-venomized.

1065
00:48:46,966 --> 00:48:48,983
-I let the snake bite me.

1066
00:48:49,010 --> 00:48:54,772
But when his turn came up, boy,
did he light him up.

1067
00:48:54,774 --> 00:48:57,116
-I got really freaked out
because it was

1068
00:48:57,118 --> 00:48:59,735
Only supposed to be
for a couple seconds.

1069
00:48:59,737 --> 00:49:01,662
And then jake -- I don't know

1070
00:49:01,689 --> 00:49:03,422
If he didn't want to
tear randy's arm apart,

1071
00:49:03,483 --> 00:49:04,974
Or if he had some problems
with the snake,

1072
00:49:04,976 --> 00:49:06,909
But the snake would not release.

1073
00:49:06,911 --> 00:49:08,927
-The snake digs deeper!

1074
00:49:09,088 --> 00:49:11,413
-[ laughing ] oh, s---.

1075
00:49:11,415 --> 00:49:14,158
Oh, my god.
My favorite time.

1076
00:49:14,276 --> 00:49:16,510
[ laughs ]

1077
00:49:16,537 --> 00:49:20,439
-Jake "the snake" has lost it.
-He's sick!

1078
00:49:20,500 --> 00:49:23,258
-This is disgraceful!
This is despicable!

1079
00:49:23,260 --> 00:49:26,145
He should be suspended for life!

1080
00:49:26,305 --> 00:49:27,505
[ crowd jeering ]

1081
00:49:27,623 --> 00:49:31,583
-[ speaking indistinctly ]

1082
00:49:31,702 --> 00:49:36,013
-This allowed jake
to really thrive

1083
00:49:36,132 --> 00:49:38,440
As the monster that he could be.

1084
00:49:38,442 --> 00:49:40,017
-It was pretty powerful tv,

1085
00:49:40,136 --> 00:49:44,355
And then people started
cheering the bad guy.

1086
00:49:44,473 --> 00:49:46,857
They started cheering
the monster, right?

1087
00:49:46,976 --> 00:49:49,877
This indestructible force
that just changed the way

1088
00:49:49,904 --> 00:49:52,546
People think about
what good guys and bad guys are.

1089
00:49:52,573 --> 00:49:56,108
-Just who in the hell
do you think you are?

1090
00:49:56,226 --> 00:49:59,370
And whose side are you on?

1091
00:49:59,488 --> 00:50:01,747
-Not yours.

1092
00:50:01,866 --> 00:50:03,874
[ cheers and applause ]

1093
00:50:03,993 --> 00:50:05,893
-I owe you one.

1094
00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:08,971
Don't turn your back on me.

1095
00:50:08,973 --> 00:50:10,047
-Oh, wait a minute!
-No!

1096
00:50:10,166 --> 00:50:12,383
You've locked it!
What have you done?

1097
00:50:12,501 --> 00:50:14,385
-His hand -- his hand is caught
in the end of that coffin.

1098
00:50:14,503 --> 00:50:16,436
-Wait a minute.

1099
00:50:16,438 --> 00:50:18,139
Oh, look at that!

1100
00:50:18,299 --> 00:50:20,983
Jake just --
and again!

1101
00:50:20,985 --> 00:50:23,043
-Oh!
-Oh!

1102
00:50:23,204 --> 00:50:26,338
-And he beats the crap out of me
with a chair,

1103
00:50:26,399 --> 00:50:28,307
But I keep coming, right?

1104
00:50:28,425 --> 00:50:29,900
I just keep going after him.

1105
00:50:30,019 --> 00:50:32,253
-Undertaker is coming for him.

1106
00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:35,330
-Jake was so brilliant
with his reactions of,

1107
00:50:35,332 --> 00:50:36,907
"what have I
gotten myself into here?"

1108
00:50:37,026 --> 00:50:39,593
-The undertaker
slowly but surely

1109
00:50:39,620 --> 00:50:42,821
Continuing to stalk
jake "the snake" roberts.

1110
00:50:42,940 --> 00:50:47,059
-It just set the tone for,
"wow! What's gonna happen

1111
00:50:47,061 --> 00:50:48,252
When undertaker
gets his revenge?"

1112
00:50:48,370 --> 00:50:50,171
-Oh, my.

1113
00:50:50,331 --> 00:50:54,366
Nothing is going to stop
the undertaker.

1114
00:50:54,427 --> 00:50:56,761
-Wrestlemania viii,
indianapolis, the hoosier dome.

1115
00:50:56,879 --> 00:50:59,263
Let me tell you something,
mr. Undertaker.

1116
00:50:59,381 --> 00:51:01,282
Claim to be from the dark side.

1117
00:51:01,309 --> 00:51:03,342
I'm gonna show you what
the devil's all about, my man.

1118
00:51:03,460 --> 00:51:06,437
Me and satan walked side by side
for a long time.

1119
00:51:06,555 --> 00:51:08,622
Shared the same thoughts.

1120
00:51:08,649 --> 00:51:09,607
Shared the same souls.

1121
00:51:09,725 --> 00:51:12,017
[ dramatic music plays ]

1122
00:51:12,136 --> 00:51:15,613
-A very cunning,
a very dangerous individual.

1123
00:51:15,731 --> 00:51:18,190
But he may just have dug
his own grave.

1124
00:51:18,192 --> 00:51:21,560
-Jake "the snake" roberts!

1125
00:51:21,621 --> 00:51:25,347
[ cheers and applause ]

1126
00:51:25,349 --> 00:51:29,952
His opponent,
weighing 328 pounds...

1127
00:51:30,070 --> 00:51:32,195
-Somebody's gonna get hurt here.

1128
00:51:32,215 --> 00:51:34,832
-...The undertaker!

1129
00:51:34,950 --> 00:51:36,759
[ cheers and applause ]
-look at jake.

1130
00:51:36,877 --> 00:51:38,410
He's ready, monsoon.

1131
00:51:38,412 --> 00:51:39,804
[ cheers and applause ]

1132
00:51:39,922 --> 00:51:42,898
-By the time you get
to wrestlemania viii,

1133
00:51:42,900 --> 00:51:45,492
Undertaker is truly
getting to his prime

1134
00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:47,903
As an absolute dominant force.

1135
00:51:47,905 --> 00:51:50,547
[ cheers and applause ]

1136
00:51:50,566 --> 00:51:52,366
-Whoa!

1137
00:51:52,368 --> 00:51:56,545
Now he's pulled "the snake"
outside with him!

1138
00:51:56,547 --> 00:51:59,364
-Oh!
-Oh, right into the steel post!

1139
00:51:59,483 --> 00:52:04,269
-The fact that jake was
a viable opponent for undertaker

1140
00:52:04,330 --> 00:52:06,347
At wrestlemania,

1141
00:52:06,374 --> 00:52:08,499
That says a lot in
and of itself.

1142
00:52:08,617 --> 00:52:09,867
-Tremendous --
well, there it is!

1143
00:52:09,985 --> 00:52:11,385
-He did it!
He did it.

1144
00:52:11,387 --> 00:52:15,614
[ humming chopin's
"funeral March" ]

1145
00:52:15,675 --> 00:52:17,508
-He is out.
-He is not making any moves.

1146
00:52:17,626 --> 00:52:18,917
And, oh, look at that!

1147
00:52:19,036 --> 00:52:22,495
He sat right up!
-Oh, no. Oh, my god.

1148
00:52:22,557 --> 00:52:26,108
-And that was the first time
that I had tombstoned, you know,

1149
00:52:26,110 --> 00:52:28,627
Anyone really
outside of the ring.

1150
00:52:28,688 --> 00:52:32,189
[ cheers and applause ]

1151
00:52:32,308 --> 00:52:34,950
-No, not on the floor!
-Oh! Tombstone!

1152
00:52:34,952 --> 00:52:37,528
-Oh!
-Tombstone city!

1153
00:52:39,982 --> 00:52:42,216
-It was kind of
an exclamation point

1154
00:52:42,243 --> 00:52:45,310
Because jake went away after --

1155
00:52:45,371 --> 00:52:47,145
You know,
after that wrestlemania.

1156
00:52:47,206 --> 00:52:49,206
-One, two, three.

1157
00:52:49,325 --> 00:52:51,950
Holy mackerel!
[ bell dings ]

1158
00:52:52,069 --> 00:52:54,986
I've never seen
jake "the snake" defeated

1159
00:52:55,047 --> 00:52:58,582
That severely as I've seen him
at the hands of the undertaker.

1160
00:52:58,700 --> 00:53:00,642
That was actually the end.

1161
00:53:00,644 --> 00:53:05,222
That was jake's final story
in the wwe for a very long time.

1162
00:53:05,341 --> 00:53:07,983
[ somber music plays ]

1163
00:53:07,985 --> 00:53:15,098
-It was a really hard time
for me at the show because I --

1164
00:53:15,217 --> 00:53:19,904
My life as I knew
it was about to end.

1165
00:53:20,022 --> 00:53:24,258
-You could kind of see
it getting out of control.

1166
00:53:24,285 --> 00:53:26,835
You know, before he left,
you could tell that it was --

1167
00:53:26,837 --> 00:53:30,839
It was becoming -- the --
the outer-ring stuff

1168
00:53:30,841 --> 00:53:32,933
Was becoming
a little more important

1169
00:53:32,960 --> 00:53:35,377
Than the -- the in-ring.

1170
00:53:36,905 --> 00:53:39,348
-I went off the deep end.

1171
00:53:39,350 --> 00:53:43,610
You know, idle hands,
the devil's playground.

1172
00:53:43,638 --> 00:53:47,614
♪♪

1173
00:53:47,642 --> 00:53:52,436
I spun out of control
for the next 15, 20 years.

1174
00:53:54,223 --> 00:53:56,315
♪♪

1175
00:54:00,755 --> 00:54:02,788
♪♪

1176
00:54:02,790 --> 00:54:05,115
-I want to talk about people

1177
00:54:05,234 --> 00:54:10,304
That have reached the pinnacle
of success in their own sports.

1178
00:54:10,331 --> 00:54:13,548
But what do they do?
What do they do?

1179
00:54:13,550 --> 00:54:17,902
A moment's weakness,
and they take the devil's powder

1180
00:54:17,964 --> 00:54:19,463
And they run it up their nose.

1181
00:54:19,581 --> 00:54:21,740
They call it cocaine,
say it's a good time,

1182
00:54:21,801 --> 00:54:24,059
And their careers are gone.

1183
00:54:24,061 --> 00:54:32,901
♪♪

1184
00:54:32,903 --> 00:54:39,275
All addiction is, is when
you're able to be satisfied

1185
00:54:39,393 --> 00:54:45,322
In life with a drug
or a drink and nothing else.

1186
00:54:45,441 --> 00:54:50,252
That's all I cared about --
how much coke did I have?

1187
00:54:50,254 --> 00:54:55,774
Because when I ran out of dope,
everything else was gone.

1188
00:54:55,835 --> 00:54:57,918
I was gone.

1189
00:55:01,582 --> 00:55:04,282
-'cause he'd been wrestling
since he was, you know, 20,

1190
00:55:04,343 --> 00:55:07,027
So his body was hurting.

1191
00:55:07,054 --> 00:55:08,745
And you got to
try to kill the pain.

1192
00:55:08,764 --> 00:55:11,690
And he made a lot of choices

1193
00:55:11,692 --> 00:55:14,192
That were not good choices.

1194
00:55:14,194 --> 00:55:16,729
♪♪

1195
00:55:16,847 --> 00:55:24,002
-Man, we were out there 25,
26 days a month, man, at least.

1196
00:55:24,030 --> 00:55:25,829
At least.

1197
00:55:25,831 --> 00:55:27,256
When I came off the road,

1198
00:55:27,258 --> 00:55:29,808
I was so friggin' beat up,

1199
00:55:29,869 --> 00:55:32,536
And I barely would have time to
wash my clothes and repack them

1200
00:55:32,654 --> 00:55:34,145
And would take off again.

1201
00:55:34,206 --> 00:55:40,102
♪♪

1202
00:55:40,104 --> 00:55:43,172
-I spent a lot of time
with jake.

1203
00:55:43,290 --> 00:55:47,217
And I got to see
some of that firsthand.

1204
00:55:47,336 --> 00:55:49,311
You know,
he would stay up all night

1205
00:55:49,429 --> 00:55:51,597
And -- and party
and do whatever.

1206
00:55:53,625 --> 00:55:57,527
-At the point where he did
become more famous, certainly,

1207
00:55:57,529 --> 00:56:03,567
And more successful than
our father, he's like a tornado.

1208
00:56:03,685 --> 00:56:06,528
He just spun
right out of control.

1209
00:56:06,647 --> 00:56:08,922
♪♪

1210
00:56:08,949 --> 00:56:10,499
-People want to be around you

1211
00:56:10,501 --> 00:56:12,350
And they want you
to come to their bars

1212
00:56:12,411 --> 00:56:15,404
And they want you to --
so all -- all of these things

1213
00:56:15,522 --> 00:56:19,007
That were -- you know,
that were jake's demon,

1214
00:56:19,009 --> 00:56:22,494
People are just, you know,
presenting it to him.

1215
00:56:22,612 --> 00:56:27,424
♪♪

1216
00:56:29,269 --> 00:56:33,514
-In 1993, I had just graduated
from high school, and...

1217
00:56:36,718 --> 00:56:40,195
He was "sober."

1218
00:56:40,197 --> 00:56:43,315
And he was making it work
in his second family.

1219
00:56:45,410 --> 00:56:48,237
And I packed everything
and moved to georgia

1220
00:56:48,355 --> 00:56:51,924
For the first time,
to go to college.

1221
00:56:51,951 --> 00:56:53,892
He talked to my mom.

1222
00:56:53,911 --> 00:56:56,603
We packed everything up

1223
00:56:56,664 --> 00:56:59,540
And took the risk
because he was my dad.

1224
00:57:02,694 --> 00:57:06,839
And, so, he smoked crack

1225
00:57:06,957 --> 00:57:11,059
The entire drive

1226
00:57:11,061 --> 00:57:16,381
From texas to georgia.

1227
00:57:16,500 --> 00:57:18,383
I drove.

1228
00:57:18,502 --> 00:57:21,161
He smoked crack.

1229
00:57:21,188 --> 00:57:24,648
Because when he drove
and smoked crack,

1230
00:57:24,766 --> 00:57:27,317
I was terrified for my life.

1231
00:57:27,436 --> 00:57:33,248
♪♪

1232
00:57:33,250 --> 00:57:35,400
-Growing up, I always swore
that I would never,

1233
00:57:35,519 --> 00:57:41,423
Ever treat my children
the way my father treated me.

1234
00:57:41,425 --> 00:57:45,294
I-I swore that up and down
a million times.

1235
00:57:47,180 --> 00:57:49,748
And what did I do?

1236
00:57:49,866 --> 00:57:54,269
♪♪

1237
00:57:54,271 --> 00:57:56,530
I wasn't there
for my children either.

1238
00:57:56,557 --> 00:58:00,350
-During the time of our teen
years and towards --

1239
00:58:00,469 --> 00:58:05,129
On towards adulthood,
we didn't --

1240
00:58:05,191 --> 00:58:06,765
We didn't see him a lot.

1241
00:58:06,883 --> 00:58:09,585
He was an absentee father.

1242
00:58:09,587 --> 00:58:12,771
He was a dad that everyone
wanted to have

1243
00:58:12,931 --> 00:58:16,441
But didn't know what that meant
and what it looked like.

1244
00:58:16,560 --> 00:58:18,476
-Those are the darkest moments
of my life

1245
00:58:18,637 --> 00:58:23,573
Because of him not being there.

1246
00:58:23,692 --> 00:58:27,118
Being an absentee father
really has an impact on you

1247
00:58:27,279 --> 00:58:29,688
When -- when you're trying
to figure out who you are.

1248
00:58:29,690 --> 00:58:32,115
♪♪

1249
00:58:32,234 --> 00:58:33,634
-You know,
as a kid, you still just want

1250
00:58:33,794 --> 00:58:36,795
Your father's love, so...

1251
00:58:36,913 --> 00:58:40,465
♪♪

1252
00:58:40,584 --> 00:58:44,002
-Too busy being a star.

1253
00:58:44,063 --> 00:58:46,930
Or a drunk or a drug addict.

1254
00:58:47,048 --> 00:58:48,732
♪♪

1255
00:58:48,850 --> 00:58:51,342
Wasn't there.

1256
00:58:51,403 --> 00:58:53,745
-And it's hard.

1257
00:58:53,747 --> 00:58:55,997
♪♪

1258
00:58:55,999 --> 00:58:58,984
It's real hard.

1259
00:58:59,102 --> 00:59:03,838
Because I -- I'd do anything
for my kids.

1260
00:59:03,840 --> 00:59:06,099
And I can't imagine,
as a father, not doing that

1261
00:59:06,126 --> 00:59:09,436
For your own kids,

1262
00:59:09,463 --> 00:59:11,938
Knowing the hurt
you've caused them,

1263
00:59:11,966 --> 00:59:14,666
Some of the pain
that they live with.

1264
00:59:14,784 --> 00:59:17,844
♪♪

1265
00:59:18,005 --> 00:59:20,839
So for that,
you know, I-I don't understand.

1266
00:59:20,957 --> 00:59:23,183
I never will.

1267
00:59:30,084 --> 00:59:34,403
-1996, I came back
to the wwe -- briefly.

1268
00:59:34,521 --> 00:59:36,888
I was actually being given
the spot I'd asked for,

1269
00:59:36,949 --> 00:59:38,523
That I would be part of the
booking committee

1270
00:59:38,642 --> 00:59:44,395
And in writing,
and it was a great thing.

1271
00:59:44,456 --> 00:59:46,473
The most important thing
to jake roberts today

1272
00:59:46,500 --> 00:59:48,458
Is giving glory to god.

1273
00:59:48,577 --> 00:59:50,977
[ cheers and applause ]

1274
00:59:51,005 --> 00:59:56,041
Because without the blood
of the lamb that was put on me

1275
00:59:56,159 --> 00:59:59,369
By a gift from jesus,
a victory so many years ago,

1276
00:59:59,388 --> 01:00:02,989
I would not be
standing here today.

1277
01:00:03,017 --> 01:00:06,584
-Jake came back in 1996
as a born-again christian

1278
01:00:06,645 --> 01:00:10,330
Because he was born again
and he had found sobriety

1279
01:00:10,357 --> 01:00:12,149
And he had found god

1280
01:00:12,267 --> 01:00:14,000
And he was going around
the country talking about it.

1281
01:00:14,028 --> 01:00:16,728
And this really
was his personality.

1282
01:00:16,846 --> 01:00:19,539
-No, the snake's not named
damien no more.

1283
01:00:19,541 --> 01:00:23,493
This is revelations.
This is the truth.

1284
01:00:23,612 --> 01:00:26,830
And I will use this serpent
to expose the darkness

1285
01:00:26,948 --> 01:00:28,256
To the true light.

1286
01:00:28,258 --> 01:00:35,580
[ cheers and applause ]

1287
01:00:35,582 --> 01:00:37,399
-He was willing to include
that sort of

1288
01:00:37,401 --> 01:00:39,735
As part of his character,

1289
01:00:39,853 --> 01:00:43,029
The recovering alcoholic
who had found god.

1290
01:00:43,057 --> 01:00:46,850
-I've got it on good authority
that poor jake

1291
01:00:46,968 --> 01:00:49,594
Has fallen
off the wagon again.

1292
01:00:49,713 --> 01:00:52,931
He missed his double "a"
or his aa meeting.

1293
01:00:53,049 --> 01:00:56,134
As a matter of fact,
with jake, it's a aaa meeting.

1294
01:00:56,195 --> 01:00:58,119
I hammered him pretty hard.

1295
01:00:58,121 --> 01:01:00,138
I mean, you know, it was all
about the drinking, the booze,

1296
01:01:00,199 --> 01:01:01,865
And all of that sort of stuff.

1297
01:01:01,983 --> 01:01:04,409
I mean, it was constant, just
hammering him, hammering him.

1298
01:01:04,528 --> 01:01:06,286
-Oh, it's driving him crazy,
not having that.

1299
01:01:06,446 --> 01:01:10,223
-There was one time that I
poured whiskey down his throat,

1300
01:01:10,250 --> 01:01:11,800
And it was real whiskey.

1301
01:01:11,802 --> 01:01:15,912
-He's not gonna do this to jake.
-Oh, my goodness.

1302
01:01:16,030 --> 01:01:18,005
-And that's raw --
that's raw booze

1303
01:01:18,125 --> 01:01:19,675
He's dumping down jake's throat.

1304
01:01:19,793 --> 01:01:21,826
Look at this.
-I-I'm sorry for it, too.

1305
01:01:21,887 --> 01:01:24,145
I believe it did have some
long-lasting effects,

1306
01:01:24,147 --> 01:01:25,997
Because that's something that --

1307
01:01:26,058 --> 01:01:28,850
You know, sobriety is something
that's an ongoing process.

1308
01:01:30,604 --> 01:01:33,154
-Oh, my god.
-You hear what jake said?

1309
01:01:33,156 --> 01:01:35,840
He wants to know if anybody's
got a beer for a chaser.

1310
01:01:35,901 --> 01:01:37,859
[ laughs ]

1311
01:01:37,978 --> 01:01:42,405
♪♪

1312
01:01:42,407 --> 01:01:45,183
-When you think
about jake's return in 1996,

1313
01:01:45,244 --> 01:01:49,003
What you think about most
is king of the ring

1314
01:01:49,005 --> 01:01:50,597
And "stone cold" steve austin.

1315
01:01:50,624 --> 01:01:54,567
-There it is! It's over!
-That's it.

1316
01:01:54,569 --> 01:01:55,994
-And the stunner applied again.

1317
01:01:56,112 --> 01:01:58,505
One, two, and he got him!

1318
01:01:58,665 --> 01:02:01,258
[ bell dings ]

1319
01:02:03,019 --> 01:02:06,646
-The king of the ring,
"stone cold" steve austin.

1320
01:02:06,648 --> 01:02:09,148
An incredible victory.

1321
01:02:09,150 --> 01:02:12,427
[ crowd shouting ]

1322
01:02:12,545 --> 01:02:15,546
-Get that piece of crap
out of my ring.

1323
01:02:15,607 --> 01:02:19,267
You ain't got
what it takes anymore.

1324
01:02:19,385 --> 01:02:22,261
You sit there
and you thump your bible

1325
01:02:22,322 --> 01:02:27,451
And you say your prayers,
and it didn't get you anywhere.

1326
01:02:27,569 --> 01:02:28,943
Talk about your psalms.

1327
01:02:29,062 --> 01:02:31,596
Talk about john 3:16.

1328
01:02:31,598 --> 01:02:36,034
Austin 3:16 says I just
whipped your ass.

1329
01:02:36,152 --> 01:02:38,136
[ cheers and applause ]

1330
01:02:38,138 --> 01:02:42,624
And that's the bottom line
because stone cold said so.

1331
01:02:42,742 --> 01:02:46,636
-If jake the snake
isn't a born-again christian,

1332
01:02:46,755 --> 01:02:50,474
Then he never references
john 3:16.

1333
01:02:50,592 --> 01:02:54,995
And if jake doesn't reference
john 3:16,

1334
01:02:55,022 --> 01:02:57,405
There's no austin 3:16.

1335
01:02:57,407 --> 01:03:02,894
You can never forget
that the attitude era and the --

1336
01:03:03,012 --> 01:03:08,024
And the future of wrestling
was incredibly affected

1337
01:03:08,142 --> 01:03:11,244
By jake's appearance
in 1996 and '97.

1338
01:03:13,615 --> 01:03:18,776
-The disheartening thing about
an addict is he'll do anything,

1339
01:03:18,837 --> 01:03:24,115
Lie, cheat, steal,
rob, even kill...

1340
01:03:24,176 --> 01:03:25,859
[ scoffs ]

1341
01:03:25,886 --> 01:03:31,807
...Or even lie to himself to
have one more hit.

1342
01:03:37,447 --> 01:03:39,781
-They say when you hit bottom,
it's time to stop digging.

1343
01:03:39,783 --> 01:03:41,591
You know,
that's real easy to say,

1344
01:03:41,610 --> 01:03:43,593
Especially when you're
sitting on top

1345
01:03:43,612 --> 01:03:48,214
Looking down at the dumbass
that's digging his own grave.

1346
01:03:48,242 --> 01:03:49,607
♪♪

1347
01:03:49,726 --> 01:03:53,611
Down there is, uh --
is real dark.

1348
01:03:53,730 --> 01:03:55,864
There's no light.

1349
01:03:55,982 --> 01:03:59,483
So what do you do?
You just keep digging.

1350
01:03:59,545 --> 01:04:01,878
♪♪

1351
01:04:01,997 --> 01:04:05,456
-Jake "the snake" roberts!

1352
01:04:05,575 --> 01:04:09,201
-I was at the top of my game
in '93 and again in '96,

1353
01:04:09,363 --> 01:04:11,187
Main event anywhere I went.

1354
01:04:11,189 --> 01:04:14,090
-And the fans all over the
world wrestling entertainment

1355
01:04:14,208 --> 01:04:16,301
Enamored with the great
jake the snake.

1356
01:04:16,419 --> 01:04:18,261
-Here it comes.
-You see the ddt!

1357
01:04:18,379 --> 01:04:20,430
-It soured pretty quick

1358
01:04:20,432 --> 01:04:24,842
Because I couldn't be around
wrestlers that were partying.

1359
01:04:24,903 --> 01:04:26,661
I wasn't strong enough.

1360
01:04:26,663 --> 01:04:28,646
Christian or not, man,
you got to fight the devil

1361
01:04:28,765 --> 01:04:29,906
Every damn day.

1362
01:04:30,025 --> 01:04:33,793
[ bell dings ]

1363
01:04:33,795 --> 01:04:39,623
-Winner of this contest,
jake "the snake" roberts!

1364
01:04:39,743 --> 01:04:43,086
-The only comfort I could find
was a drink and a drug.

1365
01:04:43,204 --> 01:04:45,939
It was the only thing
that made pain go away.

1366
01:04:45,966 --> 01:04:50,685
But as I turned to it, it wound
up destroying everything,

1367
01:04:50,687 --> 01:04:53,021
Every hope,
every dream that I ever had.

1368
01:04:53,023 --> 01:04:57,467
[ cheers and applause ]

1369
01:04:57,585 --> 01:05:01,696
My wife was smart.
She got away from me.

1370
01:05:01,698 --> 01:05:03,714
She gave me a choice.

1371
01:05:03,775 --> 01:05:08,628
"you can do your drugs
and drink,

1372
01:05:08,655 --> 01:05:10,955
But you can't stay here
and do it."

1373
01:05:10,957 --> 01:05:12,982
And she stood her ground.

1374
01:05:13,101 --> 01:05:15,135
♪♪

1375
01:05:15,162 --> 01:05:17,495
And we separated and divorced.

1376
01:05:17,614 --> 01:05:22,626
When that happened, all hell
broke loose inside of me.

1377
01:05:22,744 --> 01:05:25,795
♪♪

1378
01:05:25,914 --> 01:05:31,242
Cocaine speeds me up so fast,
I can't think about my past.

1379
01:05:31,303 --> 01:05:38,733
It speeds me up so fast that
I don't have to be responsible.

1380
01:05:38,735 --> 01:05:42,145
-The jake of 1998...

1381
01:05:45,433 --> 01:05:48,409
You couldn't be
in the room with.

1382
01:05:48,411 --> 01:05:52,397
It was painful to be with him.

1383
01:05:52,515 --> 01:05:54,282
-I'm just getting really...

1384
01:05:58,588 --> 01:06:01,039
Really...Up inside.

1385
01:06:04,260 --> 01:06:06,503
I don't know where to go.

1386
01:06:06,621 --> 01:06:11,582
-[ crying ] I was grateful
when he stayed away.

1387
01:06:11,701 --> 01:06:13,259
I was...

1388
01:06:19,801 --> 01:06:23,186
I've never said that out loud.

1389
01:06:23,304 --> 01:06:25,038
-Thank you, gentlemen.

1390
01:06:25,065 --> 01:06:27,557
Back here, I have a man
of legendary proportions.

1391
01:06:27,675 --> 01:06:29,842
The man,
jake "the snake" roberts.

1392
01:06:30,003 --> 01:06:31,635
He is a man
that you all recognize.

1393
01:06:31,697 --> 01:06:33,405
He's a legend.

1394
01:06:33,523 --> 01:06:34,622
-He was one of the first
to come to casino magic.

1395
01:06:34,624 --> 01:06:36,607
-Oh!

1396
01:06:36,726 --> 01:06:39,185
-You know, you're in a casino,
and everybody says,

1397
01:06:39,346 --> 01:06:41,121
"well, gosh, a casino,
you should gamble."

1398
01:06:41,281 --> 01:06:42,622
Let me tell you something, man.

1399
01:06:42,782 --> 01:06:46,300
Well, you don't want to
play cards with me

1400
01:06:46,302 --> 01:06:49,212
Because I'll cheat, okay?

1401
01:06:49,330 --> 01:06:50,730
I cheat.

1402
01:06:50,757 --> 01:06:53,133
-I don't think jake knows
where he is.

1403
01:06:53,293 --> 01:06:54,208
-I don't think
they're gonna fight

1404
01:06:54,327 --> 01:06:56,294
The way things are going now.

1405
01:06:56,412 --> 01:07:03,501
-I'm ashamed to tell you the --
the depth of how low I got.

1406
01:07:03,562 --> 01:07:06,320
It was horrible.

1407
01:07:06,322 --> 01:07:08,823
-To go from performing
in front of

1408
01:07:08,825 --> 01:07:13,403
Tens of thousands of people
on a regular basis --

1409
01:07:13,521 --> 01:07:20,577
To go from that level
to high-school gyms and worse...

1410
01:07:23,040 --> 01:07:25,506
High -- wrestling high --

1411
01:07:25,508 --> 01:07:30,420
Wrestling drunk, asking
promoters to find you crack --

1412
01:07:30,538 --> 01:07:33,590
It's -- it's one of the --
the -- the worst falls

1413
01:07:33,708 --> 01:07:36,092
We've ever seen in wrestling.

1414
01:07:36,211 --> 01:07:39,670
♪♪

1415
01:07:39,789 --> 01:07:43,449
-I wonder what goes
through my head.

1416
01:07:43,477 --> 01:07:45,435
It's not like I-I set out
to do that.

1417
01:07:45,553 --> 01:07:49,272
I-I -- I guess what I'm really
trying to say is,

1418
01:07:49,390 --> 01:07:51,182
You know, I was sitting here
thinking, you know,

1419
01:07:51,300 --> 01:07:52,850
"why do you just
go off like that?

1420
01:07:52,969 --> 01:07:55,369
Why do you just keep pushing
and pushing and pushing?!"

1421
01:07:55,371 --> 01:07:58,055
-It's hard to watch.

1422
01:07:58,116 --> 01:08:01,951
♪♪

1423
01:08:02,070 --> 01:08:04,179
Real hard to watch.

1424
01:08:04,297 --> 01:08:10,701
And I worry more now for my kids
about what's out there,

1425
01:08:10,820 --> 01:08:13,554
Because they have a -- a --

1426
01:08:13,556 --> 01:08:16,800
A certain belief of who
their papa jake is.

1427
01:08:16,918 --> 01:08:19,469
That's cool.

1428
01:08:19,587 --> 01:08:23,348
That is something
you can be proud of.

1429
01:08:23,466 --> 01:08:25,992
But I know some of the stuff
that's out there,

1430
01:08:26,019 --> 01:08:26,976
And it won't go away.

1431
01:08:27,095 --> 01:08:28,553
[ sniffles ]

1432
01:08:28,671 --> 01:08:31,614
-Well, guess what.
That's what I do for you.

1433
01:08:31,732 --> 01:08:33,316
Somebody said, "kick your ass."

1434
01:08:33,434 --> 01:08:35,543
In about three or four
or five minutes,

1435
01:08:35,545 --> 01:08:37,395
I'm gonna dump my s--- on you.

1436
01:08:37,513 --> 01:08:39,614
And I feel sorry for you.

1437
01:08:39,732 --> 01:08:44,677
So, buzz, look at them,
because you know what?

1438
01:08:44,704 --> 01:08:47,479
I got something for you
right here.

1439
01:08:47,541 --> 01:08:49,349
Bite me.

1440
01:08:49,376 --> 01:08:53,019
-For years, everyone expected
that that was gonna be

1441
01:08:53,046 --> 01:08:59,417
The next, you know, in memoriam,
on, you know, on wwe.

1442
01:08:59,535 --> 01:09:05,256
You know, and -- and, I mean,
I-I thought so, too,

1443
01:09:05,374 --> 01:09:08,943
That it's just a matter of --
just a matter of time.

1444
01:09:09,061 --> 01:09:12,438
[ crowd chanting ]
-but...

1445
01:09:12,440 --> 01:09:16,951
You're not giving me
the same respect, man.

1446
01:09:16,953 --> 01:09:19,571
Shut the "f" up.

1447
01:09:19,689 --> 01:09:23,216
[ crowd shouting ]

1448
01:09:23,243 --> 01:09:24,775
-[ sighs ]

1449
01:09:24,894 --> 01:09:28,204
♪♪

1450
01:09:28,323 --> 01:09:32,983
I've tried to commit suicide
a -- well, a handful of times.

1451
01:09:33,044 --> 01:09:38,639
♪♪

1452
01:09:38,641 --> 01:09:41,475
Took like a hundred valium.
[ chuckles ]

1453
01:09:41,477 --> 01:09:42,826
That should have done it.

1454
01:09:42,888 --> 01:09:49,075
♪♪

1455
01:09:49,102 --> 01:09:51,411
But the next morning, I woke up,
I had puked all over myself.

1456
01:09:51,438 --> 01:09:53,671
I guess that's what
saved my life.

1457
01:09:53,732 --> 01:09:59,602
♪♪

1458
01:09:59,720 --> 01:10:04,181
The really ugly times
were with cocaine...

1459
01:10:04,242 --> 01:10:05,925
Begging to die...

1460
01:10:05,952 --> 01:10:11,664
♪♪

1461
01:10:11,824 --> 01:10:14,492
...Just continually
hitting that pipe.

1462
01:10:14,652 --> 01:10:17,270
It would get so hot
that I'd burn my lips.

1463
01:10:17,297 --> 01:10:22,108
♪♪

1464
01:10:22,135 --> 01:10:23,909
I'd hit the pipe
and curse the devil,

1465
01:10:23,911 --> 01:10:25,153
Hit the pipe and curse god,
hit the pipe --

1466
01:10:25,271 --> 01:10:28,097
[ chuckles ] jesus.

1467
01:10:30,551 --> 01:10:33,619
Thank you, sweet jesus,
for not letting me die.

1468
01:10:33,647 --> 01:10:39,992
♪♪

1469
01:10:39,994 --> 01:10:41,535
-[ voice breaking ] for my dad,

1470
01:10:41,537 --> 01:10:47,224
I worry that he can't break
very many more times, right?

1471
01:10:47,285 --> 01:10:52,789
How -- how many times could he
break and put himself together?

1472
01:10:52,907 --> 01:10:54,565
It's like the nine lives.

1473
01:10:54,626 --> 01:10:58,202
You -- certainly you've got
to run out at some point.

1474
01:10:58,321 --> 01:11:02,072
♪♪

1475
01:11:02,133 --> 01:11:04,041
-You know, after a while,

1476
01:11:04,160 --> 01:11:06,135
You -- you get so freaking good
at letting people down

1477
01:11:06,254 --> 01:11:10,973
That it just doesn't feel
natural doing anything else.

1478
01:11:10,975 --> 01:11:12,600
♪♪

1479
01:11:17,190 --> 01:11:18,614
-You have to get down so low

1480
01:11:18,616 --> 01:11:24,670
That you're willing
to do anything to get clean.

1481
01:11:24,698 --> 01:11:27,732
[ sighs ] you don't think
I wouldn't cut off an arm to...

1482
01:11:27,850 --> 01:11:30,918
♪♪

1483
01:11:30,920 --> 01:11:33,404
...Roll back the time

1484
01:11:33,522 --> 01:11:35,906
To where I didn't walk away
from my family?

1485
01:11:36,025 --> 01:11:39,744
[ sighs ]

1486
01:11:39,862 --> 01:11:41,612
I'd cut off both legs, man,

1487
01:11:41,673 --> 01:11:45,616
If I could have a relationship
with some of my kids.

1488
01:11:45,677 --> 01:11:49,846
And I hate myself more
than they could ever hate me

1489
01:11:49,964 --> 01:11:51,288
For that failure.

1490
01:11:51,349 --> 01:11:58,704
♪♪

1491
01:11:58,732 --> 01:12:02,025
[ sighs ] f---.

1492
01:12:02,143 --> 01:12:04,710
[ sighs ] alright,
I need to stop for a little.

1493
01:12:04,738 --> 01:12:08,714
♪♪

1494
01:12:08,742 --> 01:12:12,643
[ sighing ]

1495
01:12:12,704 --> 01:12:15,963
♪♪

1496
01:12:15,965 --> 01:12:18,757
-Jake's my brother.
He's my mentor.

1497
01:12:18,759 --> 01:12:21,336
He's probably one of
the top-three closest people

1498
01:12:21,454 --> 01:12:23,004
In the world to me.

1499
01:12:23,122 --> 01:12:27,550
He finally understood, like,
when you get high,

1500
01:12:27,668 --> 01:12:30,053
You are not a good person, man.

1501
01:12:30,171 --> 01:12:32,480
Like, you don't want
to be around you.

1502
01:12:32,482 --> 01:12:35,666
Straight jake would never want
to be around high jake, ever.

1503
01:12:35,727 --> 01:12:40,246
♪♪

1504
01:12:40,273 --> 01:12:43,900
-I'm gonna go over to ddp's
house -- diamond dallas page.

1505
01:12:44,018 --> 01:12:47,511
And, um, this is where
I got sober at.

1506
01:12:47,572 --> 01:12:51,457
For 2 1/2 years,
I worked on getting sober,

1507
01:12:51,459 --> 01:12:55,002
And they turned it into
a -- a movie or a documentary,

1508
01:12:55,004 --> 01:12:56,837
Whatever you want to call it.

1509
01:12:56,839 --> 01:13:03,527
And it's beyond belief
how many people have came to me

1510
01:13:03,546 --> 01:13:06,898
And thanked me
for doing the movie

1511
01:13:07,058 --> 01:13:09,300
"the resurrection
of jake roberts."

1512
01:13:11,754 --> 01:13:13,062
-When we started filming him

1513
01:13:13,064 --> 01:13:15,089
Down there
in gainesville, texas,

1514
01:13:15,207 --> 01:13:17,508
He literally had gone to rehab
a month before,

1515
01:13:17,626 --> 01:13:20,010
But he went right back --
coke and crack,

1516
01:13:20,129 --> 01:13:24,290
And, you know, went right back
drinking and pills and...

1517
01:13:24,317 --> 01:13:32,523
♪♪

1518
01:13:32,641 --> 01:13:35,392
-Recently, been talking to jake
quite a bit.

1519
01:13:35,394 --> 01:13:37,703
I've known him
for quite a number of years.

1520
01:13:37,705 --> 01:13:39,188
He's hit on
some really hard times.

1521
01:13:39,307 --> 01:13:41,641
His body's really beat-up.

1522
01:13:41,668 --> 01:13:46,662
-Yeah, a little over a year ago,
I retired officially.

1523
01:13:46,780 --> 01:13:49,206
The only passion I had
was wrestling.

1524
01:13:49,325 --> 01:13:50,891
Had to give it up.

1525
01:13:50,893 --> 01:13:54,654
I had a life, but I poisoned it.

1526
01:13:54,681 --> 01:13:56,747
-Come up on your knees.
I'm gonna show you something.

1527
01:13:56,808 --> 01:14:00,217
-[ grunting ]
-you've not used your toes.

1528
01:14:00,377 --> 01:14:02,570
Like, jake, you're like
a year or two away

1529
01:14:02,572 --> 01:14:04,480
From not being able to walk.

1530
01:14:04,599 --> 01:14:10,002
-I know this is
my last...Shot in life.

1531
01:14:10,029 --> 01:14:12,563
♪♪

1532
01:14:12,681 --> 01:14:14,674
I hated myself.

1533
01:14:14,701 --> 01:14:15,992
Truly hated myself.

1534
01:14:16,110 --> 01:14:17,585
I took the mirrors
down in my house

1535
01:14:17,587 --> 01:14:18,661
'cause I couldn't stand
to look at me.

1536
01:14:18,779 --> 01:14:22,498
♪♪

1537
01:14:22,617 --> 01:14:24,333
-I'm right here, okay?
-Yeah.

1538
01:14:24,452 --> 01:14:27,428
-Now, try bending this knee
to get down to that.

1539
01:14:27,430 --> 01:14:30,815
I'm right here, I'm right here,
I'm right here, I'm right here.

1540
01:14:30,817 --> 01:14:33,951
-That's it, here!
Oh, foot!

1541
01:14:34,012 --> 01:14:38,439
-I think ddp yoga is probably
what saved my life,

1542
01:14:38,441 --> 01:14:40,141
Because I couldn't get around
anymore.

1543
01:14:40,259 --> 01:14:41,926
I couldn't get up.
I couldn't get down.

1544
01:14:42,044 --> 01:14:45,855
♪♪

1545
01:14:45,973 --> 01:14:51,360
-Once he really stayed sober
and the fog lifted,

1546
01:14:51,479 --> 01:14:55,623
Now your brain starts
to heal itself, and you get --

1547
01:14:55,625 --> 01:14:57,700
Like, you get sharper again.

1548
01:14:57,818 --> 01:15:01,128
Like, you could talk to jake
about anything today.

1549
01:15:01,130 --> 01:15:04,632
Back then, not so much.

1550
01:15:04,634 --> 01:15:05,950
-I feel like I'm suffocating.

1551
01:15:05,952 --> 01:15:08,677
I actually want to drink.

1552
01:15:08,796 --> 01:15:10,563
Uh, uh, I don't want to use,
g--damn it.

1553
01:15:10,590 --> 01:15:12,623
And right now,
I'm -- I'm -- I'm --

1554
01:15:12,741 --> 01:15:17,386
I'm out here pacing,
'cause I don't want to do it.

1555
01:15:17,505 --> 01:15:19,980
-You know, even though I'd fall,
you know,

1556
01:15:19,982 --> 01:15:22,892
I'd go for two or three months
and be really good

1557
01:15:23,010 --> 01:15:25,778
And then -- boom --
I'd screw up again.

1558
01:15:25,938 --> 01:15:27,813
-Four...Beers today, brother.

1559
01:15:27,974 --> 01:15:30,299
I had...Oysters.
[ laughs ]

1560
01:15:30,318 --> 01:15:32,076
-Please, please,
sell that to someone else.

1561
01:15:32,078 --> 01:15:33,844
-Really, really?

1562
01:15:33,905 --> 01:15:36,072
-And it was heartbreaking to me
to go through that,

1563
01:15:36,190 --> 01:15:37,949
'cause I so badly --

1564
01:15:38,067 --> 01:15:41,077
So badly I wanted sobriety
and wasn't able to get it.

1565
01:15:41,195 --> 01:15:44,747
But by doing it
and letting the people see it,

1566
01:15:44,865 --> 01:15:46,916
It gave them the courage to try.

1567
01:15:47,034 --> 01:15:54,665
-10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

1568
01:15:54,783 --> 01:15:58,185
-Maybe it was --
was that someone reached out

1569
01:15:58,187 --> 01:16:04,733
And -- and cared enough to say,
"hey, there's worth in you."

1570
01:16:04,852 --> 01:16:06,769
-[ chuckles ]
-maybe he didn't realize

1571
01:16:06,887 --> 01:16:08,696
For a long time how many people

1572
01:16:08,698 --> 01:16:12,241
Were -- were rooting for him
all along.

1573
01:16:12,243 --> 01:16:13,717
-"bye-bye, papa jake."

1574
01:16:13,778 --> 01:16:15,911
-Bye-bye, papa jake.
-Bye-bye, papa jake.

1575
01:16:15,913 --> 01:16:18,747
-Daddy always --
-"love you."

1576
01:16:18,749 --> 01:16:20,165
-Love you.

1577
01:16:20,167 --> 01:16:22,543
-[ sighs ] bust my --

1578
01:16:22,545 --> 01:16:25,045
-During his deepest struggles,

1579
01:16:25,047 --> 01:16:28,124
We couldn't have ever
reached him to the degree

1580
01:16:28,242 --> 01:16:32,086
That -- that dallas was able to.

1581
01:16:32,204 --> 01:16:36,465
I don't think my dad would
be alive if it wasn't for him.

1582
01:16:36,584 --> 01:16:41,411
-Jake roberts today
is exactly who he wants to be,

1583
01:16:41,472 --> 01:16:46,400
And that's a good person
who cares, loves his family,

1584
01:16:46,402 --> 01:16:48,644
And wants to help other people.

1585
01:16:48,763 --> 01:16:50,253
That's powerful.

1586
01:16:50,315 --> 01:16:52,815
♪♪

1587
01:16:52,933 --> 01:16:54,483
-Don't give up. Don't give up.

1588
01:16:54,602 --> 01:16:57,186
That's the thing.
Don't ever give up.

1589
01:16:57,304 --> 01:17:00,456
You may fall and bust your butt
and screw up,

1590
01:17:00,458 --> 01:17:04,301
But dust yourself off,
get back up, and go at it again.

1591
01:17:04,329 --> 01:17:05,919
And that's what I've done.

1592
01:17:05,921 --> 01:17:08,322
[ cheers and applause ]

1593
01:17:08,440 --> 01:17:13,402
-Our next inductee
to the class of 2014,

1594
01:17:13,421 --> 01:17:15,896
Ladies and gentlemen,

1595
01:17:15,898 --> 01:17:18,916
I proudly present
the prodigal son --

1596
01:17:18,918 --> 01:17:23,512
The one, the only
jake "the snake" roberts!

1597
01:17:23,631 --> 01:17:25,923
[ cheers and applause ]

1598
01:17:26,041 --> 01:17:32,112
♪♪

1599
01:17:32,114 --> 01:17:34,281
-I don't remember
walking to the podium,

1600
01:17:34,283 --> 01:17:35,783
'cause I'm pretty sure

1601
01:17:35,785 --> 01:17:38,027
That I was just six inches
off the ground

1602
01:17:38,145 --> 01:17:39,528
And I was just floating.

1603
01:17:39,647 --> 01:17:41,271
[ cheers and applause ]

1604
01:17:41,390 --> 01:17:43,123
-To see him inducted
into the hall of fame

1605
01:17:43,125 --> 01:17:45,534
Was an incredibly beautiful
full-circle moment.

1606
01:17:45,653 --> 01:17:50,456
[ crowd chanting "you still got
it!", clapping rhythmically ]

1607
01:17:59,942 --> 01:18:01,992
-I think that that will be
his legacy,

1608
01:18:02,053 --> 01:18:05,462
Is he's just a tremendous
character and storyteller.

1609
01:18:05,581 --> 01:18:07,223
-I'm proud of him.

1610
01:18:07,341 --> 01:18:10,000
And I -- and I would say
to anybody that runs into him,

1611
01:18:10,061 --> 01:18:12,653
Pat him on the back,
tell him he's doing a great job,

1612
01:18:12,655 --> 01:18:14,304
'cause he is.

1613
01:18:14,423 --> 01:18:19,159
-I've got some special people
here called family.

1614
01:18:19,161 --> 01:18:20,403
[ cheers and applause ]

1615
01:18:20,521 --> 01:18:22,996
Will my girls and boys
please stand up?

1616
01:18:22,998 --> 01:18:24,548
'cause you're my heroes.

1617
01:18:24,550 --> 01:18:28,252
[ cheers and applause ]

1618
01:18:28,254 --> 01:18:31,171
-His grandkids only know him
as papa jake,

1619
01:18:31,290 --> 01:18:35,501
And he gets to see
what a blessing it is

1620
01:18:35,661 --> 01:18:37,603
To be around the kids
and the grandkids

1621
01:18:37,630 --> 01:18:39,788
And getting to see them
in these moments...

1622
01:18:39,907 --> 01:18:41,941
-Right?
-...Be a part of their lives.

1623
01:18:41,968 --> 01:18:44,109
-Just to watch
and see the emotions

1624
01:18:44,137 --> 01:18:46,278
That everybody went through,

1625
01:18:46,305 --> 01:18:50,007
To see that he was making
progress on rebuilding...

1626
01:18:50,125 --> 01:18:51,525
That meant a lot.

1627
01:18:51,527 --> 01:18:54,011
[ cheers and applause ]

1628
01:18:54,129 --> 01:18:55,955
-I love them.

1629
01:18:55,982 --> 01:18:58,357
They gave me a second chance.

1630
01:19:00,194 --> 01:19:03,946
And god bless the wwe,
because they gave me one, too.

1631
01:19:04,064 --> 01:19:05,372
Thank you very much.

1632
01:19:05,374 --> 01:19:08,442
[ cheers and applause ]

1633
01:19:08,560 --> 01:19:11,971
[ mid-tempo music plays ]

1634
01:19:11,998 --> 01:19:13,864
-He's a different person

1635
01:19:13,982 --> 01:19:16,667
And he wants to help
a lot of people.

1636
01:19:16,786 --> 01:19:23,031
♪♪

1637
01:19:23,050 --> 01:19:29,546
♪♪

1638
01:19:29,665 --> 01:19:31,656
-I'm that guy now.

1639
01:19:31,658 --> 01:19:34,368
I'm that guy that got
friggin' sober, man.

1640
01:19:34,370 --> 01:19:38,071
I'm that guy that's doing
the right thing.

1641
01:19:38,073 --> 01:19:41,091
-I guess whatever it is that --
that drives him

1642
01:19:41,152 --> 01:19:45,078
To continue to -- to live,

1643
01:19:45,080 --> 01:19:49,416
Thank god,
is stronger than whatever demons

1644
01:19:49,418 --> 01:19:51,660
Were trying to kill him.

1645
01:19:51,779 --> 01:19:53,496
-Now I've got 10 years
under my belt.

1646
01:19:53,614 --> 01:19:55,681
Man, I can't believe that.

1647
01:19:55,708 --> 01:19:58,733
And, uh, so grateful
that, uh, wwe

1648
01:19:58,753 --> 01:20:01,428
Is wanting to put
this piece out there,

1649
01:20:01,430 --> 01:20:03,464
'cause I think this piece
is gonna help some people, too.

1650
01:20:09,555 --> 01:20:11,847
-There we go.
-Fish on, baby! Fish on, baby!

1651
01:20:11,966 --> 01:20:13,757
Ah-roo! Ah-roo!
-Oh, yeah, baby!

1652
01:20:13,876 --> 01:20:15,034
-Ah-roo!
-Dang, that is --

1653
01:20:15,061 --> 01:20:16,093
That's a good size.

1654
01:20:16,211 --> 01:20:17,402
-Catch of the day.
-Whoa!

1655
01:20:17,404 --> 01:20:18,937
-Yes, sir!
-There you go, big boy.

1656
01:20:18,939 --> 01:20:19,939
-Whoo!
That...

1657
01:20:20,099 --> 01:20:22,115
-Dang, that's a hog.
That is a hog.

1658
01:20:22,117 --> 01:20:23,833
-That's gonna be striper candy.
-How big you think it is?

1659
01:20:23,835 --> 01:20:26,695
17? 18?
-Oh!

1660
01:20:26,814 --> 01:20:28,614
-Dang, that's a good size.
-Hey, y'all can stop now.

1661
01:20:28,774 --> 01:20:30,507
♪♪

1662
01:20:30,509 --> 01:20:33,552
-If somebody had told me
15 years ago

1663
01:20:33,579 --> 01:20:35,879
That I would actually be
on the lake with my boys

1664
01:20:35,881 --> 01:20:40,167
And having a great day
and not chasing a crack pipe

1665
01:20:40,286 --> 01:20:44,046
Or bottle of wine
or whiskey or whatever,

1666
01:20:44,164 --> 01:20:47,398
I-I'd have laughed at 'em.

1667
01:20:47,400 --> 01:20:51,053
-My siblings and I all have
different types of relationships

1668
01:20:51,171 --> 01:20:53,830
With -- with dad,

1669
01:20:53,891 --> 01:20:59,395
And not everybody is okay
with him.

1670
01:20:59,513 --> 01:21:03,899
Not everyone thinks
he's a great guy.

1671
01:21:09,264 --> 01:21:12,223
-I've got eight children.

1672
01:21:12,285 --> 01:21:17,413
I've got four that...Still
don't want much to do with me.

1673
01:21:17,531 --> 01:21:20,099
And I understand why,
because I wasn't there.

1674
01:21:20,126 --> 01:21:22,543
♪♪

1675
01:21:22,661 --> 01:21:24,628
And all I want to do is --
is make --

1676
01:21:24,747 --> 01:21:27,940
Try to make up
for some of that lost time.

1677
01:21:27,967 --> 01:21:31,110
And I want them to know that it
wasn't them that was a problem.

1678
01:21:31,137 --> 01:21:33,003
It was me.

1679
01:21:33,121 --> 01:21:36,356
♪♪

1680
01:21:36,358 --> 01:21:40,185
-Deep down inside,
he's not a bad person at all.

1681
01:21:40,346 --> 01:21:42,879
Um...

1682
01:21:42,899 --> 01:21:43,981
And that's, uh...

1683
01:21:44,099 --> 01:21:47,200
♪♪

1684
01:21:47,202 --> 01:21:50,720
[ sighs ]

1685
01:21:50,781 --> 01:21:52,856
[ voice breaking ]
so it's so hard.

1686
01:21:52,975 --> 01:21:55,392
♪♪

1687
01:21:55,453 --> 01:22:01,807
'cause I know that he never
wanted to do the things he did.

1688
01:22:01,834 --> 01:22:03,050
-And it's --
it's real life, man.

1689
01:22:03,052 --> 01:22:05,202
This -- this is not fake.
This is not tv.

1690
01:22:05,320 --> 01:22:07,646
This is not some promo
that he's cutting.

1691
01:22:07,673 --> 01:22:10,315
You know,
it -- it's -- it's things

1692
01:22:10,343 --> 01:22:13,393
That you have to work on
and build over many, many years.

1693
01:22:13,395 --> 01:22:15,045
Doesn't happen overnight.

1694
01:22:15,163 --> 01:22:18,398
♪♪

1695
01:22:18,400 --> 01:22:20,643
-He's got a lot of calluses
and a lot of scars

1696
01:22:20,761 --> 01:22:22,995
From his former life,

1697
01:22:23,022 --> 01:22:29,726
But he's a very giving
and generous person --

1698
01:22:29,845 --> 01:22:33,822
Not that different
than [chuckles] most americans.

1699
01:22:33,941 --> 01:22:35,507
Just had an addiction.

1700
01:22:35,534 --> 01:22:40,179
♪♪

1701
01:22:40,206 --> 01:22:41,922
-I hope he's made it
to that place

1702
01:22:41,924 --> 01:22:44,107
Where he is okay with himself.

1703
01:22:44,168 --> 01:22:46,377
♪♪

1704
01:22:46,495 --> 01:22:48,228
You can't apologize anymore.

1705
01:22:48,230 --> 01:22:50,881
It's -- it's not necessary.

1706
01:22:51,000 --> 01:22:52,974
I heard in an interview
one time,

1707
01:22:52,976 --> 01:22:55,268
Talking about how he took all
the mirrors out of the house,

1708
01:22:55,270 --> 01:22:56,653
Or he broke the mirrors
in the house

1709
01:22:56,681 --> 01:22:58,347
'cause he couldn't
look at himself.

1710
01:22:58,465 --> 01:23:01,091
Put the mirrors back up.

1711
01:23:01,209 --> 01:23:04,778
-I look forward
to seeing the relationships

1712
01:23:04,780 --> 01:23:08,448
That he has and develops
with my siblings,

1713
01:23:08,450 --> 01:23:12,436
Because this isn't the end
of his story.

1714
01:23:12,554 --> 01:23:15,622
It's just part of his story.

1715
01:23:15,624 --> 01:23:18,217
You know,
it's just one more chapter.

1716
01:23:18,244 --> 01:23:25,540
♪♪

1717
01:23:25,542 --> 01:23:32,548
♪♪

1718
01:23:32,666 --> 01:23:39,646
♪♪

1719
01:23:39,648 --> 01:23:41,256
My granny sat down

1720
01:23:41,374 --> 01:23:45,635
And explained
our family history to me.

1721
01:23:45,754 --> 01:23:51,400
My question to her was,
"tell me about dad as a kid."

1722
01:23:51,518 --> 01:23:54,211
And it was amazing.

1723
01:23:54,238 --> 01:23:58,331
He was sensitive, caring,

1724
01:23:58,333 --> 01:24:01,577
Loved animals.

1725
01:24:01,695 --> 01:24:06,656
She talked about him
being this gentle,

1726
01:24:06,775 --> 01:24:10,586
Tender, precocious kid.

1727
01:24:10,704 --> 01:24:16,199
And that's who you see
in that picture of aurelian.

1728
01:24:16,260 --> 01:24:21,838
♪♪

1729
01:24:21,957 --> 01:24:24,858
-You know,
I can't put it in stone,

1730
01:24:24,860 --> 01:24:27,043
But I will tell you this --

1731
01:24:27,104 --> 01:24:30,271
That I'm gonna work
the rest of my life

1732
01:24:30,273 --> 01:24:32,858
Trying to get it right

1733
01:24:33,018 --> 01:24:37,296
And helping others
that want to get it right.

1734
01:24:37,323 --> 01:24:41,133
My history
will not be my destiny.

1735
01:24:41,160 --> 01:24:47,039
My past will not look
like my future at all.

1736
01:24:49,551 --> 01:24:52,735
If you go and meet people
that you performed in front of,

1737
01:24:52,855 --> 01:24:54,980
And you see a little glimmer
in their eye,

1738
01:24:55,007 --> 01:24:56,965
Because they're going back
to that moment,

1739
01:24:57,084 --> 01:24:58,467
And they're reliving it.

1740
01:24:58,585 --> 01:25:03,472
And I realize that I was
such a big part of their life,

1741
01:25:03,590 --> 01:25:08,918
That there's millions
and millions of people out there

1742
01:25:08,938 --> 01:25:12,456
That remember
something about jake roberts.

1743
01:25:12,458 --> 01:25:17,820
And if you can't enjoy that,
man, you're a damn fool.

1744
01:25:17,938 --> 01:25:20,823
[ rattling ]