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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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But nothing.
I got nothing.

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♪♪

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Sometimes parents just
don't measure up, man.

262
00:10:38,418 --> 00:10:39,418
I mean...

263
00:10:39,585 --> 00:10:42,210
♪

264
00:10:42,293 --> 00:10:44,418
...you know, sometimes they just
can't give you what you need.

265
00:10:44,585 --> 00:10:46,210
♪

266
00:10:46,376 --> 00:10:47,418
Whether they want to or not.

267
00:10:47,585 --> 00:10:50,460
♪

268
00:10:50,585 --> 00:10:52,043
[ Exhales sharply ]

269
00:10:52,210 --> 00:10:54,543
♪

270
00:10:54,668 --> 00:10:56,710
[ Sighs ]

271
00:10:56,835 --> 00:10:58,293
My father...
[ Scoffs ]

272
00:11:00,001 --> 00:11:02,043
...he was the worst kind
of monster there is.

273
00:11:03,626 --> 00:11:07,376
His victims were little girls.

274
00:11:07,543 --> 00:11:08,626
Even his own.

275
00:11:08,751 --> 00:11:10,793
[ Dramatic music plays ]

276
00:11:16,293 --> 00:11:19,460
-There's a tree in Texas
called the iron oak.

277
00:11:19,585 --> 00:11:21,751
♪

278
00:11:21,876 --> 00:11:26,460
Tangled limbs, broken,
goes wherever it wants.

279
00:11:26,585 --> 00:11:29,626
♪

280
00:11:29,751 --> 00:11:31,460
Doesn't give a damn
what gets in its way.

281
00:11:31,585 --> 00:11:34,376
♪

282
00:11:34,543 --> 00:11:37,501
Iron oaks, though,

283
00:11:37,626 --> 00:11:39,210
they rot from the inside out.

284
00:11:39,376 --> 00:11:40,585
♪

285
00:11:40,710 --> 00:11:42,126
Just like my damn father.

286
00:11:42,251 --> 00:11:45,210
[ Somber music plays ]

287
00:11:45,293 --> 00:11:50,751
♪♪

288
00:11:50,876 --> 00:11:54,126
The story I got
from my grandmother, man, was

289
00:11:54,251 --> 00:11:57,168
pretty ugly
because I remember asking her

290
00:11:57,293 --> 00:12:00,543
if she had any regrets
in her life.

291
00:12:00,710 --> 00:12:03,293
And she said she only had one.

292
00:12:03,418 --> 00:12:04,751
I said, "What was that?"

293
00:12:04,876 --> 00:12:06,210
She goes, "I should've
killed your father

294
00:12:06,293 --> 00:12:07,751
when I had the chance."

295
00:12:07,918 --> 00:12:10,960
I'm like, "Wow!
Why?"

296
00:12:11,085 --> 00:12:13,543
♪♪

297
00:12:13,626 --> 00:12:14,876
-I'm trying to make
a family tree,

298
00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:16,251
if that's possible.

299
00:12:16,418 --> 00:12:17,710
♪

300
00:12:17,835 --> 00:12:19,168
Start out with my dad.

301
00:12:19,251 --> 00:12:22,376
♪♪

302
00:12:22,501 --> 00:12:26,043
Dad had originally hooked up
with my grandmother,

303
00:12:26,168 --> 00:12:29,418
and they were dating,
so to speak.

304
00:12:29,543 --> 00:12:32,918
She's had a little too much
to drink and passes out.

305
00:12:33,085 --> 00:12:36,585
He gets with my mother,
who's about 12 years old.

306
00:12:36,710 --> 00:12:39,960
♪♪

307
00:12:40,085 --> 00:12:43,418
-So, he just went
into another room and...

308
00:12:46,085 --> 00:12:47,918
[ Scoffs ]
...raped my mother.

309
00:12:49,001 --> 00:12:50,043
12-year-old girl, man.

310
00:12:51,460 --> 00:12:52,418
[ Scoffs ]

311
00:12:52,585 --> 00:12:56,626
♪

312
00:12:56,751 --> 00:13:01,710
-He was conceived
by rape that --

313
00:13:01,835 --> 00:13:06,710
that our father somehow had
that opportunity

314
00:13:06,835 --> 00:13:10,710
and, you know,
forced himself on -- on her

315
00:13:10,793 --> 00:13:13,460
and that's when
Jake was conceived,

316
00:13:13,585 --> 00:13:14,543
I guess, and -- and...

317
00:13:14,626 --> 00:13:15,626
♪♪

318
00:13:15,751 --> 00:13:17,001
...then they got married.

319
00:13:17,085 --> 00:13:19,376
I -- I'm not --
I don't even know.

320
00:13:19,460 --> 00:13:23,918
I don't even know how all that,
you know, went down.

321
00:13:24,085 --> 00:13:26,751
♪

322
00:13:26,918 --> 00:13:31,960
-Tiny is what people
called his dad, right?

323
00:13:32,085 --> 00:13:34,835
Because he's 7-foot-plus.

324
00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:37,210
And I mean,
I came up to his elbow.

325
00:13:37,376 --> 00:13:38,460
♪

326
00:13:38,585 --> 00:13:39,585
His elbow.

327
00:13:39,751 --> 00:13:40,585
[ Chuckles ]

328
00:13:40,751 --> 00:13:43,168
♪

329
00:13:43,293 --> 00:13:49,001
-Whatever you want to call
this man, my grandfather,

330
00:13:49,126 --> 00:13:51,376
I mean,
he's a pedophile, clearly.

331
00:13:53,085 --> 00:13:57,251
He stopped being interested
when people got too old.

332
00:13:57,376 --> 00:14:01,043
♪♪

333
00:14:01,168 --> 00:14:02,710
-After --

334
00:14:02,835 --> 00:14:04,335
After Paula has Jake, Jo Lynn,

335
00:14:04,418 --> 00:14:06,626
and Richard, they divorce

336
00:14:06,751 --> 00:14:12,085
and then Grizz comes over here
to my mom, who is Marsha...

337
00:14:12,251 --> 00:14:14,418
♪

338
00:14:14,585 --> 00:14:18,793
...who, at the time,
was probably no more than --

339
00:14:18,918 --> 00:14:21,543
no more than 14 or 15.

340
00:14:21,626 --> 00:14:22,626
Had to be.

341
00:14:22,751 --> 00:14:25,293
♪

342
00:14:25,418 --> 00:14:31,251
And Mom has Mike and me.

343
00:14:31,376 --> 00:14:36,460
♪♪

344
00:14:36,585 --> 00:14:38,335
-What makes me sick
to my stomach, man,

345
00:14:38,460 --> 00:14:40,960
is that he did the same thing
to my sisters.

346
00:14:41,085 --> 00:14:44,335
[ Somber music plays ]

347
00:14:44,418 --> 00:14:48,085
♪♪

348
00:14:48,210 --> 00:14:57,043
-He started abusing me,
um, my -- my -- my --

349
00:14:57,168 --> 00:15:01,918
The memory of that that I have
is I was about eight years old.

350
00:15:02,085 --> 00:15:04,918
And -- And there's no doubt
in my mind

351
00:15:05,043 --> 00:15:08,418
that the same thing happened
to Jo Lynn.

352
00:15:08,585 --> 00:15:10,418
♪

353
00:15:10,585 --> 00:15:13,835
One day my mother was
out on an errand at the store,

354
00:15:13,918 --> 00:15:16,543
and he happened to be home

355
00:15:16,710 --> 00:15:19,085
and told me [Patting]
to just come sit on his lap

356
00:15:19,251 --> 00:15:20,835
and, from there,
that was the first time

357
00:15:20,918 --> 00:15:22,335
he put his hands on me.

358
00:15:26,251 --> 00:15:27,710
[ Clears throat ]
I didn't think

359
00:15:27,793 --> 00:15:30,210
I'd get upset, but, um...

360
00:15:31,751 --> 00:15:33,335
And so that happened.

361
00:15:33,460 --> 00:15:35,293
Um.

362
00:15:35,418 --> 00:15:37,710
And that continued
for a few years.

363
00:15:38,751 --> 00:15:40,585
And that was the --

364
00:15:40,751 --> 00:15:42,376
Wow.

365
00:15:42,543 --> 00:15:45,668
I think it was the first time
I got really upset

366
00:15:45,751 --> 00:15:47,793
just talking about that.

367
00:15:47,918 --> 00:15:48,876
I don't know --
I don't even know

368
00:15:49,001 --> 00:15:50,376
if I've told that whole story.

369
00:15:50,460 --> 00:15:55,376
♪♪

370
00:15:55,543 --> 00:15:56,626
-F--- him.

371
00:15:56,751 --> 00:16:00,210
♪

372
00:16:00,335 --> 00:16:04,376
So many...girls had
their innocence taken.

373
00:16:04,501 --> 00:16:13,126
♪

374
00:16:14,251 --> 00:16:16,043
-When I grew up,
it was real different

375
00:16:16,126 --> 00:16:19,043
because I had some issues.

376
00:16:19,168 --> 00:16:22,876
First of all,
I lived with my grandparents.

377
00:16:23,043 --> 00:16:27,376
-Jake wasn't primarily raised
by his mother.

378
00:16:27,501 --> 00:16:30,418
You know, she didn't have
the skills to raise a child.

379
00:16:30,543 --> 00:16:33,710
-And my grandfather
was a good man,

380
00:16:33,835 --> 00:16:35,418
but he was an alcoholic.

381
00:16:35,543 --> 00:16:38,001
♪♪

382
00:16:38,126 --> 00:16:45,001
I dug a hole, I built a wall,

383
00:16:45,085 --> 00:16:48,210
and I learned to lie.

384
00:16:48,335 --> 00:16:50,210
You know?

385
00:16:50,335 --> 00:16:54,210
I stayed with my grandparents
until I was 12.

386
00:16:54,376 --> 00:16:58,793
That's when I chose to go
with my father.

387
00:16:58,918 --> 00:17:01,793
♪

388
00:17:01,918 --> 00:17:04,960
Whew!
It didn't start right away,

389
00:17:05,085 --> 00:17:08,418
but within two or three months,
it began.

390
00:17:08,585 --> 00:17:10,876
♪

391
00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:14,710
This was all done
by my stepmother.

392
00:17:14,876 --> 00:17:17,293
I started being molested by her.

393
00:17:17,418 --> 00:17:19,043
♪

394
00:17:19,126 --> 00:17:22,126
We'd have sex.

395
00:17:22,251 --> 00:17:25,668
And then afterwards,
she'd beat my ass, man.

396
00:17:25,751 --> 00:17:29,543
She'd beat me with
clothes hangers, hairbrushes.

397
00:17:29,710 --> 00:17:30,876
You know, "If your father
finds out about this,

398
00:17:31,043 --> 00:17:32,710
he's going to kill you."

399
00:17:32,835 --> 00:17:37,210
And I was scared to death that
my dad would kill me.

400
00:17:37,335 --> 00:17:39,376
-There was only about a
five-year difference

401
00:17:39,460 --> 00:17:42,501
between my mother and Jake.

402
00:17:42,585 --> 00:17:45,043
If something happened there,
I have to think

403
00:17:45,168 --> 00:17:47,043
that it would have had
to have been

404
00:17:47,168 --> 00:17:51,376
at the request of Jake's dad.

405
00:17:51,501 --> 00:17:55,001
Our father.

406
00:17:55,126 --> 00:18:00,543
I can't see my mother being --
being an abuser,

407
00:18:00,668 --> 00:18:03,043
but it's very likely
that, you know,

408
00:18:03,168 --> 00:18:05,710
that's something
that father might have wanted.

409
00:18:05,793 --> 00:18:09,085
♪♪

410
00:18:09,251 --> 00:18:11,085
-Where does he go to get help?

411
00:18:11,251 --> 00:18:16,085
A small town, had to try
to figure out all on his own.

412
00:18:16,210 --> 00:18:18,710
And, you know,

413
00:18:18,835 --> 00:18:22,793
I think most of us in that
situation would have crumbled

414
00:18:22,918 --> 00:18:24,376
in one way or another.

415
00:18:24,501 --> 00:18:28,543
♪

416
00:18:28,626 --> 00:18:32,876
-As a kid, I don't think
he ever thought he had a chance.

417
00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:40,376
♪♪

418
00:18:40,543 --> 00:18:44,543
♪

419
00:18:44,668 --> 00:18:49,543
-You can take an ax
to an iron oak.

420
00:18:49,626 --> 00:18:50,960
Waste of time.

421
00:18:51,085 --> 00:18:52,876
The roots run too deep.

422
00:18:53,001 --> 00:18:56,085
They go every direction.

423
00:18:56,210 --> 00:18:58,960
They never, never let go.

424
00:18:59,085 --> 00:19:02,126
[ Sighs ]

425
00:19:02,251 --> 00:19:06,543
I still remember that night
like it was yesterday.

426
00:19:06,710 --> 00:19:09,668
♪

427
00:19:09,751 --> 00:19:12,126
I went down to Baton Rouge,
Louisiana, to see him,

428
00:19:12,251 --> 00:19:14,585
to tell him that
I was going to go to college

429
00:19:14,751 --> 00:19:16,960
and become an architect.

430
00:19:17,085 --> 00:19:21,210
That's where my young brain,
with the help of some alcohol,

431
00:19:21,376 --> 00:19:23,376
come up with the idea of
"If you want your father

432
00:19:23,501 --> 00:19:25,876
to be proud,
you've got to get in that ring

433
00:19:26,001 --> 00:19:28,418
and beat up a wrestler."

434
00:19:28,585 --> 00:19:31,043
♪

435
00:19:31,168 --> 00:19:34,043
"You can do it 'cause you're 18

436
00:19:34,168 --> 00:19:35,710
and you're bad
and you can kick ass."

437
00:19:35,876 --> 00:19:39,210
I mean, I was a big kid.

438
00:19:39,335 --> 00:19:40,793
I remember getting in the ring,
man,

439
00:19:40,918 --> 00:19:44,335
and hearing the fans, for the
first time, cheering for me.

440
00:19:44,460 --> 00:19:46,543
Wow.
What a rush that was, man.

441
00:19:46,710 --> 00:19:48,251
Man, I felt like king
of the world.

442
00:19:48,418 --> 00:19:52,043
"Come on, I'm gonna kick
your ass, old man."

443
00:19:52,126 --> 00:19:54,251
He was a short, little
dumpling guy, man,

444
00:19:54,376 --> 00:19:57,543
and, uh, he humiliated
the piss out of me, man.

445
00:19:57,626 --> 00:19:59,960
He twisted me up
in different ways

446
00:20:00,085 --> 00:20:02,835
that my body's
never been in since.

447
00:20:02,918 --> 00:20:05,876
G--damn, that --
it was horrible.

448
00:20:08,543 --> 00:20:10,001
I got to the locker room,
and my father,

449
00:20:10,085 --> 00:20:11,376
you know,
he was standing there,

450
00:20:11,501 --> 00:20:16,751
and he looks down at me
and he goes,

451
00:20:16,918 --> 00:20:18,710
"I am ashamed of you."

452
00:20:18,793 --> 00:20:20,501
♪♪

453
00:20:20,626 --> 00:20:22,043
"You're gutless.

454
00:20:22,126 --> 00:20:24,460
And you'll never amount
to a damn thing."

455
00:20:24,585 --> 00:20:28,335
♪

456
00:20:28,460 --> 00:20:31,793
-Jake told him -- he said,
"I will f------ do it."

457
00:20:31,918 --> 00:20:33,585
I was like, "Oh, s---."

458
00:20:33,751 --> 00:20:35,626
I went and got on the other side
of the ring

459
00:20:35,751 --> 00:20:37,710
because I figured them two
was fixing to go at it.

460
00:20:37,835 --> 00:20:40,710
It was just --
The tension was so tight.

461
00:20:40,835 --> 00:20:46,376
-And I remember praying
to the devil.

462
00:20:46,501 --> 00:20:50,501
"You help me become the biggest,
baddest wrestler, Devil,

463
00:20:50,626 --> 00:20:52,876
and I'll do anything you want.

464
00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:57,293
But I want to be bigger
and badder than he is.

465
00:20:57,418 --> 00:20:59,543
I want to make
him eat those words."

466
00:20:59,668 --> 00:21:02,793
♪

467
00:21:02,918 --> 00:21:05,043
And that's the night that I
gave up on being an architect.

468
00:21:05,210 --> 00:21:08,585
♪

469
00:21:13,043 --> 00:21:15,626
♪♪

470
00:21:15,751 --> 00:21:19,210
-You know what's on my birth
certificate as his profession?

471
00:21:19,335 --> 00:21:21,876
"Wrestling referee."

472
00:21:22,001 --> 00:21:24,126
I joke you not.

473
00:21:24,251 --> 00:21:27,335
That is on my birth
certificate from 1975.

474
00:21:30,876 --> 00:21:34,293
-I was so bad, they made me
become a referee.

475
00:21:34,418 --> 00:21:36,293
That's how bad I was.

476
00:21:36,418 --> 00:21:39,418
I didn't go and do it
the smart way of, you know,

477
00:21:39,585 --> 00:21:43,376
going to a wrestling school
or having someone train me.

478
00:21:43,501 --> 00:21:46,376
I went the most foolish way
there is,

479
00:21:46,460 --> 00:21:48,376
the trial-and-error method.

480
00:21:48,460 --> 00:21:50,418
-Let's get us some action,
shall we?

481
00:21:50,543 --> 00:21:52,376
We're going to watch
Jake Roberts,

482
00:21:52,501 --> 00:21:56,710
the long, lean, and lanky
Louisiana larruper.

483
00:21:56,876 --> 00:21:58,168
-Jake Roberts is finding out
right now

484
00:21:58,251 --> 00:21:59,251
this is a
rough-and-tough sport.

485
00:21:59,418 --> 00:22:00,918
This is a man's sport.

486
00:22:01,085 --> 00:22:02,918
He looks like a little boy
out there right now.

487
00:22:03,085 --> 00:22:05,001
-I had no business in the ring.

488
00:22:05,085 --> 00:22:07,835
I was absolutely horrible.

489
00:22:07,918 --> 00:22:10,168
-Oh, he's in trouble now.

490
00:22:10,293 --> 00:22:12,710
So it's Roberts over the top.

491
00:22:12,793 --> 00:22:17,043
And that's a lot of beef
to go air freight.

492
00:22:17,126 --> 00:22:18,876
-Jake "The Snake" is --

493
00:22:19,001 --> 00:22:22,501
is physically not who you would
picture as a pro wrestler.

494
00:22:22,585 --> 00:22:25,043
-Roberts is in trouble now.
-Yes, he is.

495
00:22:25,210 --> 00:22:27,751
-I'm afraid this is a mismatch.

496
00:22:27,918 --> 00:22:30,376
♪

497
00:22:30,460 --> 00:22:34,418
-Stunk the place up
for two years.

498
00:22:34,543 --> 00:22:36,376
-Jake is trying to come out.

499
00:22:36,460 --> 00:22:38,710
-Jake was a
second-generation wrestler.

500
00:22:38,793 --> 00:22:41,418
And I think that says
a lot right there.

501
00:22:41,585 --> 00:22:44,210
When you grow up in
the business

502
00:22:44,376 --> 00:22:45,793
and you watch it all your life,

503
00:22:45,918 --> 00:22:50,543
you have a better grasp
of what works, what doesn't,

504
00:22:50,668 --> 00:22:52,751
and how you want to do it.

505
00:22:52,876 --> 00:22:56,168
♪♪

506
00:22:56,293 --> 00:22:58,751
And bit by bit,
I learned things.

507
00:22:58,918 --> 00:23:00,751
I picked up things.

508
00:23:00,876 --> 00:23:02,876
♪♪

509
00:23:03,001 --> 00:23:07,293
I used to find myself going to
little, bitty towns, man.

510
00:23:07,418 --> 00:23:10,210
You know, they run once a year.

511
00:23:10,293 --> 00:23:13,501
Of course, the guys today
would never go to those towns,

512
00:23:13,626 --> 00:23:15,376
but back then, you know,
the small promotions

513
00:23:15,501 --> 00:23:16,751
did their things.

514
00:23:16,876 --> 00:23:23,501
♪♪

515
00:23:23,585 --> 00:23:29,043
-It was really a traveling act,
constantly.

516
00:23:29,126 --> 00:23:33,460
People would jump in a car
after the matches.

517
00:23:33,585 --> 00:23:36,001
Three or four guys
get in the car.

518
00:23:36,085 --> 00:23:40,043
Very often, you know,
a case of beer in the back seat.

519
00:23:40,168 --> 00:23:42,460
Drink in the back seat while
telling stories

520
00:23:42,585 --> 00:23:45,418
and making the towns,
as they say.

521
00:23:45,543 --> 00:23:47,126
-He's got Roberts down,
and it may be over.

522
00:23:47,251 --> 00:23:48,543
-Dave picks him up.

523
00:23:48,710 --> 00:23:50,293
[ Thump ]
Hard slam down on the mat.

524
00:23:50,418 --> 00:23:52,751
[ Bell dings ]

525
00:23:52,876 --> 00:23:56,001
-You're in Chicago tonight,
then you're in Milwaukee

526
00:23:56,085 --> 00:23:58,418
the next night,
Green Bay the next night,

527
00:23:58,585 --> 00:24:00,543
then you drive
all the way back to Chicago.

528
00:24:00,668 --> 00:24:02,710
-He can strike with
the swiftness of a rattler.

529
00:24:02,876 --> 00:24:04,626
There's no question about that.

530
00:24:04,751 --> 00:24:06,793
-I would wake up some mornings,
and I'd have to look

531
00:24:06,918 --> 00:24:11,293
at the nameplate on the phone
to remember what city I was in.

532
00:24:11,418 --> 00:24:13,293
'Cause it was go, go, go,
go, go, go, go.

533
00:24:13,418 --> 00:24:15,460
-Night after night after night,

534
00:24:15,585 --> 00:24:17,835
spending more time
with your co-workers

535
00:24:17,918 --> 00:24:20,085
than you would ever possibly
get to spend with your family.

536
00:24:20,210 --> 00:24:25,710
♪♪

537
00:24:25,835 --> 00:24:29,043
-You reach a point
in wrestling that you get it.

538
00:24:29,210 --> 00:24:32,210
It finally clicks up here,
what you're doing.

539
00:24:32,376 --> 00:24:38,751
And once you figure it out,
you realize how beautiful it is.

540
00:24:38,918 --> 00:24:41,251
It is art.

541
00:24:41,418 --> 00:24:44,793
-Big Daddy Ritter,
Jake Roberts.

542
00:24:44,918 --> 00:24:47,543
-Wrestlers are the greatest
actors of all time.

543
00:24:47,668 --> 00:24:51,626
-Roberts has got
the sleeper on him!

544
00:24:51,751 --> 00:24:54,876
-Because we do it every night
and we do it absolutely perfect.

545
00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:56,751
-Riding him down!

546
00:24:56,876 --> 00:25:00,460
-Because if we don't,
the fan won't buy it.

547
00:25:00,585 --> 00:25:02,043
[ Bell dings ]
-Roberts has won the belt!

548
00:25:02,126 --> 00:25:05,793
The place is totally wild!

549
00:25:05,918 --> 00:25:08,668
People are going totally
out of their skulls!

550
00:25:08,751 --> 00:25:11,918
[ Cheers and applause ]

551
00:25:12,085 --> 00:25:18,168
-I could argue
that Jake the Snake's DDT

552
00:25:18,251 --> 00:25:20,251
is the greatest
finishing move of all time.

553
00:25:21,918 --> 00:25:23,376
-Oh!
-DDT!

554
00:25:23,501 --> 00:25:25,543
DDT, right there!

555
00:25:25,668 --> 00:25:27,918
-The DDT is number one
with a bullet.

556
00:25:28,918 --> 00:25:30,043
-The DDT!

557
00:25:30,168 --> 00:25:31,668
-The brain buster!

558
00:25:31,751 --> 00:25:33,585
-Drives that head hard
to the mat.

559
00:25:33,710 --> 00:25:36,043
Oh, and he just can't
get up from that.

560
00:25:36,168 --> 00:25:38,376
-It's not easy to think up
a new move in wrestling,

561
00:25:38,501 --> 00:25:39,960
and especially even back then.

562
00:25:40,085 --> 00:25:41,668
Like, I mean, there was guys
like me going,

563
00:25:41,751 --> 00:25:43,001
"Geez, I wish
I could think up a new move."

564
00:25:43,085 --> 00:25:44,460
-Beautiful. Ohh!

565
00:25:44,585 --> 00:25:46,501
[ Cheers and applause ]

566
00:25:46,626 --> 00:25:48,876
Did you see that?
That was like a pile driver.

567
00:25:49,043 --> 00:25:54,210
-Well, I was wrestling a guy
called The Grappler.

568
00:25:54,376 --> 00:25:56,335
This masked devil.

569
00:25:56,460 --> 00:25:58,710
And we had these little things
that we'd do each other,

570
00:25:58,835 --> 00:25:59,960
and one of those things was,

571
00:26:00,085 --> 00:26:02,168
I would have his head
stuck in here

572
00:26:02,293 --> 00:26:04,960
and I'd just be wrenching
his neck, you know?

573
00:26:05,085 --> 00:26:09,293
So this night, he goes
to push me into the corner,

574
00:26:09,418 --> 00:26:12,376
and he steps on my left foot.

575
00:26:12,501 --> 00:26:17,876
And when he did, that caused me
to fall flat on my ass.

576
00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:21,793
When we fell and his head hit
that mat, people just popped.

577
00:26:21,918 --> 00:26:23,710
When I say "popped," that means
jump out of their seats

578
00:26:23,835 --> 00:26:25,876
up and down,
screaming, "Yeah, man.

579
00:26:26,001 --> 00:26:29,293
That's the greatest move ever!"

580
00:26:29,418 --> 00:26:30,418
And they're absolutely right.

581
00:26:30,585 --> 00:26:32,543
It was the greatest move ever.

582
00:26:32,626 --> 00:26:34,210
-Oh!
-Did you see that?

583
00:26:35,335 --> 00:26:38,085
-And he just dropped him!
And listen to this crowd!

584
00:26:38,210 --> 00:26:39,501
They love him.

585
00:26:39,585 --> 00:26:40,918
-Now, here's the hard part.

586
00:26:41,043 --> 00:26:43,876
I got to come up
with a cool name.

587
00:26:44,001 --> 00:26:48,376
I mean, if it's not a cool name,
the hold is worthless, okay?

588
00:26:48,501 --> 00:26:52,835
And I went to breakfast
one morning in Tampa, Florida,

589
00:26:52,918 --> 00:26:55,585
and picked up
a <i>USA Today</i> newspaper.

590
00:26:55,710 --> 00:26:58,543
And the front page, big letters,

591
00:26:58,626 --> 00:27:02,335
"DDT Outlawed by
U.S. Government."

592
00:27:04,918 --> 00:27:06,210
And I looked at that
and I'm like,

593
00:27:06,293 --> 00:27:10,210
"That's the name
right there -- DDT. Yeah."

594
00:27:10,293 --> 00:27:12,376
[ Crowd chanting "DDT" ]
-There goes a DDT,

595
00:27:12,543 --> 00:27:14,210
the most vicious hold I think
I've ever seen in wrestling.

596
00:27:14,335 --> 00:27:16,876
-You're back there playing
cowboys and Indians.

597
00:27:17,001 --> 00:27:19,376
I tell you what I'm doing.
I'm dealing with "1984."

598
00:27:19,543 --> 00:27:21,710
When you put that DDT on them,
Jordan,

599
00:27:21,835 --> 00:27:23,543
it's just like nuclear holocaust
coming down, man,

600
00:27:23,626 --> 00:27:24,793
because it's over.

601
00:27:24,918 --> 00:27:26,751
[ Cheers and applause ]

602
00:27:26,918 --> 00:27:29,668
-The crowd calling for the DDT.

603
00:27:29,793 --> 00:27:31,335
-They would start
the "DDT, DDT,"

604
00:27:31,418 --> 00:27:35,126
and he'd get ready and give us
the finger like he did.

605
00:27:35,251 --> 00:27:37,960
It was more of a communication
to make sure

606
00:27:38,085 --> 00:27:41,668
the crowd was really locked in
and involved with what he did.

607
00:27:41,751 --> 00:27:43,418
-Listen to the people!

608
00:27:43,585 --> 00:27:45,376
They're standing!
They want it!

609
00:27:45,501 --> 00:27:47,210
They want the DDT!

610
00:27:48,376 --> 00:27:49,751
And they're gonna get it!

611
00:27:49,918 --> 00:27:52,251
Jake delivers the DDT!

612
00:27:52,376 --> 00:27:54,460
Nobody gets up from that one.

613
00:27:54,585 --> 00:27:56,043
-Oh, yeah.

614
00:27:56,168 --> 00:27:59,210
Jake the Snake with the DDT
and the victory.

615
00:27:59,335 --> 00:28:01,501
Look at this crowd.

616
00:28:01,585 --> 00:28:03,418
There you see
the man of the DDT.

617
00:28:03,585 --> 00:28:06,376
[ Cheers and applause ]

618
00:28:06,501 --> 00:28:11,001
♪

619
00:28:11,126 --> 00:28:16,960
-In 1986,
he signed with the WWE.

620
00:28:17,085 --> 00:28:19,335
Now Jake the Snake arrives.

621
00:28:19,418 --> 00:28:22,085
And I think for most people,

622
00:28:22,210 --> 00:28:25,543
this is when Jake the Snake
became a household name.

623
00:28:25,668 --> 00:28:27,876
-Wrestling's not rocket science.

624
00:28:28,001 --> 00:28:29,960
Come on.

625
00:28:30,085 --> 00:28:32,126
It doesn't matter if
they love you or they hate you.

626
00:28:34,168 --> 00:28:37,085
As long as they remember you.

627
00:28:42,335 --> 00:28:45,335
-I was wrestling
in Mid-South Sports in Louisiana

628
00:28:45,460 --> 00:28:49,043
and Oklahoma, Texas,
and, um, the phone rang.

629
00:28:49,126 --> 00:28:51,418
I picked it up,
and it was Vince McMahon.

630
00:28:51,543 --> 00:28:54,043
♪♪

631
00:28:54,126 --> 00:28:56,501
And he said, "Can you get
on a plane and come up here?

632
00:28:56,585 --> 00:28:58,251
We need to talk."

633
00:29:00,418 --> 00:29:02,043
Damn right.

634
00:29:02,126 --> 00:29:03,835
"Who's paying for the trip?"

635
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:05,251
"Well, we'll pay for it."
"Okay, no problem."

636
00:29:05,376 --> 00:29:08,376
I'd never had a promoter
offer me a flight.

637
00:29:08,501 --> 00:29:13,335
He comes in and he says,
"Well, we're gonna dress you up

638
00:29:13,418 --> 00:29:19,043
in lime-green or
royal-purple tights, spandex."

639
00:29:19,210 --> 00:29:21,960
[ Chuckles ]
I didn't say anything yet.

640
00:29:22,085 --> 00:29:25,376
And he said, "We're gonna
put you in lace-up,

641
00:29:25,501 --> 00:29:28,751
knee-high snakeskin boots."

642
00:29:28,918 --> 00:29:31,710
And right before
I throw the flag

643
00:29:31,835 --> 00:29:34,876
and say, "I'm not interested
in doing this s---,"

644
00:29:35,001 --> 00:29:38,668
Vince wrote some numbers
on a piece of paper

645
00:29:38,793 --> 00:29:42,835
and gingerly slipped them
over to me.

646
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:45,543
And at the same time, he said,

647
00:29:45,668 --> 00:29:48,960
"And carry
a large 12-foot python."

648
00:29:49,085 --> 00:29:52,043
♪♪

649
00:29:52,210 --> 00:29:58,835
Me being severely
scared of snakes...

650
00:29:58,918 --> 00:30:03,835
that fear went out the window
when I seen the zeros

651
00:30:03,918 --> 00:30:05,168
on that piece of paper.

652
00:30:05,251 --> 00:30:09,043
♪♪

653
00:30:09,168 --> 00:30:14,043
I'd never seen that many zeros
on a check towards me.

654
00:30:14,126 --> 00:30:18,418
And I was blown away
to the point

655
00:30:18,585 --> 00:30:23,293
that I immediately took his
bad idea and made sense of it.

656
00:30:23,418 --> 00:30:25,376
-I mean, if you're going to
go with the name Jake the Snake,

657
00:30:25,501 --> 00:30:29,543
you got to figure Mr. McMahon
is gonna put a snake in your --

658
00:30:29,626 --> 00:30:31,543
in your hands.

659
00:30:31,668 --> 00:30:33,418
♪

660
00:30:33,543 --> 00:30:41,876
-From Stone Mountain, Georgia,
Jake "The Snake" Roberts!

661
00:30:42,043 --> 00:30:44,876
-Jake "The Snake" Roberts
making his debut here this week

662
00:30:45,043 --> 00:30:46,710
in the World Wrestling
Entertainment.

663
00:30:46,835 --> 00:30:49,043
And we know what's in the bag.

664
00:30:49,210 --> 00:30:51,210
-The only time I'm not afraid

665
00:30:51,335 --> 00:30:53,585
of those damn snakes
is when the bell rings.

666
00:30:53,710 --> 00:30:55,876
[ Bell dings ]

667
00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:57,126
-Jake "The Snake" Roberts,
newcomer here

668
00:30:57,251 --> 00:30:58,751
to the World Wrestling
Entertainment,

669
00:30:58,918 --> 00:31:00,626
but certainly not
to the squared circle.

670
00:31:00,751 --> 00:31:02,043
-Oh, what a slam.

671
00:31:02,126 --> 00:31:03,293
He just drove him
into the canvas.

672
00:31:03,418 --> 00:31:07,043
-This man is known worldwide.
Tough competitor.

673
00:31:07,126 --> 00:31:08,668
-He is gonna be a force
to reckon with here

674
00:31:08,793 --> 00:31:10,501
in the World Wrestling
Entertainment.

675
00:31:10,585 --> 00:31:12,710
-There's that patented move by
The Snake called the DDT.

676
00:31:12,876 --> 00:31:14,751
[ Bell dings ]

677
00:31:14,876 --> 00:31:16,876
Look at him slithering
over towards that bag.

678
00:31:17,043 --> 00:31:18,710
[ Screaming ]
-Wow.

679
00:31:18,835 --> 00:31:23,210
-Oh, look at the size of it.
Holy mackerel.

680
00:31:23,335 --> 00:31:24,793
-He's not gonna put
it on top of him, is he?

681
00:31:24,918 --> 00:31:26,710
-Yes, he is.

682
00:31:26,876 --> 00:31:28,960
-Oh, my. Look at it.

683
00:31:29,085 --> 00:31:30,876
-If that isn't an insult,
I've never seen one.

684
00:31:31,043 --> 00:31:32,793
-Huh? Come on. Come on.

685
00:31:32,918 --> 00:31:35,043
-In no way, shape, or form
that should be allowed

686
00:31:35,210 --> 00:31:37,168
in the world
of professional wrestling.

687
00:31:39,210 --> 00:31:41,085
-The snake was incredible.
It was shocking.

688
00:31:41,210 --> 00:31:43,710
-Don't do that.
-It was memorable.

689
00:31:43,835 --> 00:31:46,376
You couldn't take your eyes
off of it.

690
00:31:46,501 --> 00:31:50,376
It's legitimately one of
the absolute best gimmicks

691
00:31:50,501 --> 00:31:53,585
ever in pro wrestling.

692
00:31:53,710 --> 00:31:55,293
-Bite him, Damien. Bite him.

693
00:31:55,418 --> 00:31:57,543
-If you keep playing
with snakes,

694
00:31:57,668 --> 00:32:00,043
you got to expect one thing.

695
00:32:00,168 --> 00:32:02,001
You're gonna get bit.

696
00:32:02,085 --> 00:32:03,460
-Give me a break, referee.

697
00:32:03,585 --> 00:32:05,376
Don't let him do that.

698
00:32:05,501 --> 00:32:10,043
-No wonder they call him
Jake "The Snake" Roberts.

699
00:32:10,210 --> 00:32:12,460
-He literally would
smother people

700
00:32:12,585 --> 00:32:18,376
and strangle them with a snake,
with a python on national TV.

701
00:32:18,501 --> 00:32:21,376
-This thing weighed
almost 200 pounds.

702
00:32:21,543 --> 00:32:23,293
And Jake would just --

703
00:32:23,418 --> 00:32:26,293
just pick that thing up and
sling it and hit you with it.

704
00:32:26,418 --> 00:32:28,376
It was like hitting you
with a baseball bat,

705
00:32:28,543 --> 00:32:30,960
with that snake.

706
00:32:31,085 --> 00:32:31,835
-The first time he got
Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat

707
00:32:31,918 --> 00:32:33,210
was a big one.

708
00:32:33,376 --> 00:32:34,626
-Oh, he's jamming it
in his mouth!

709
00:32:34,751 --> 00:32:36,001
I can't believe it!

710
00:32:36,085 --> 00:32:37,460
-Why do I put the snake

711
00:32:37,585 --> 00:32:39,543
across somebody's body
and let him crawl?

712
00:32:39,710 --> 00:32:41,751
[ Laughs ]
I get off on it.

713
00:32:41,876 --> 00:32:43,376
Don't you?

714
00:32:43,543 --> 00:32:46,085
-Come on, referee.
This is despicable.

715
00:32:46,210 --> 00:32:49,043
-He just loves it.
Look at the snake going to him.

716
00:32:49,126 --> 00:32:51,751
-It becomes a big part
of what people want to see.

717
00:32:51,918 --> 00:32:53,876
I mean, they just --
they would go crazy.

718
00:32:54,043 --> 00:32:55,626
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Oh, my goodness, Damien!

719
00:32:55,751 --> 00:32:58,960
-They'd go crazy just seeing
the bag in the corner.

720
00:32:59,085 --> 00:33:00,918
-Oh, look at this.
-Oh, my gosh.

721
00:33:01,085 --> 00:33:04,043
-Wanting to get out
of the bag already.

722
00:33:04,210 --> 00:33:07,876
-At WrestleMania II, he
had a dude foaming at the mouth.

723
00:33:08,043 --> 00:33:09,960
-Imagine the constricting
of the snake.

724
00:33:10,085 --> 00:33:11,376
-Oh, look at that!

725
00:33:13,793 --> 00:33:17,543
-I really tried to stay away
from the snake because,

726
00:33:17,626 --> 00:33:22,251
you know, Jake would always talk
to the snake and kiss the snake.

727
00:33:24,168 --> 00:33:26,543
Andre was scared to death
of the snake.

728
00:33:26,668 --> 00:33:29,668
-Andre the Giant looks like
he's terrified of that snake.

729
00:33:29,751 --> 00:33:31,793
-[Imitating Andre the Giant]
"No, no snake."

730
00:33:31,918 --> 00:33:34,376
-Look at this.
Andre backing off.

731
00:33:34,460 --> 00:33:35,751
-When Andre had to work
with him,

732
00:33:35,876 --> 00:33:37,376
it was kind of funny to watch

733
00:33:37,501 --> 00:33:39,168
because he was scared to death
of the snake.

734
00:33:40,168 --> 00:33:42,501
-Oh, no!
A collar on The Giant!

735
00:33:42,626 --> 00:33:45,460
Look at this!
It's choking Andre the Giant!

736
00:33:45,585 --> 00:33:47,418
Andre going down.

737
00:33:47,543 --> 00:33:49,918
And Jake
putting Damien all over him.

738
00:33:50,085 --> 00:33:52,043
Andre clutching his chest.

739
00:33:52,168 --> 00:33:53,918
Andre is just terrified.

740
00:33:54,043 --> 00:33:56,876
He's terrified of the snake.

741
00:33:56,960 --> 00:33:58,876
Jake "The Snake" Roberts
and Damien

742
00:33:59,001 --> 00:34:01,960
have really done a job
on Andre the Giant.

743
00:34:02,085 --> 00:34:05,918
Standing triumphant
is Jake "The Snake" Roberts!

744
00:34:06,085 --> 00:34:08,460
[ Cheers and applause ]

745
00:34:08,585 --> 00:34:10,751
-What'd you think
of this matchup here?

746
00:34:10,876 --> 00:34:12,126
-Jake, you're the best, Jake!

747
00:34:12,251 --> 00:34:13,543
-What'd you think
of this matchup?

748
00:34:13,668 --> 00:34:15,835
-He's the best. Jake's the best.
Jake's the best.

749
00:34:15,918 --> 00:34:17,376
-Yeah, I guess he's going
to say it all.

750
00:34:17,543 --> 00:34:19,126
As you can see,
not a bad seat in the house.

751
00:34:19,251 --> 00:34:20,710
Back to you, Gorilla.

752
00:34:20,876 --> 00:34:23,168
♪

753
00:34:23,251 --> 00:34:26,126
-Everybody hated that snake.

754
00:34:26,251 --> 00:34:29,668
Jake would just dump it
on the floor in the shower.

755
00:34:29,793 --> 00:34:31,501
It would just --
People would go in the shower,

756
00:34:31,585 --> 00:34:32,793
and the snake
would just be there.

757
00:34:32,918 --> 00:34:34,251
-And guys would just freak out

758
00:34:34,418 --> 00:34:36,085
and come running out
of the shower naked.

759
00:34:36,251 --> 00:34:38,043
-And then Jake would have
a heck of time

760
00:34:38,126 --> 00:34:40,876
trying to get the snake
in the bag after that.

761
00:34:41,001 --> 00:34:42,710
-Unfortunately,
from the locker room,

762
00:34:42,793 --> 00:34:46,085
I would have to put it in a bag
and put it in a trunk

763
00:34:46,251 --> 00:34:47,376
and then carry it to the car.

764
00:34:47,501 --> 00:34:49,210
And then once I got
to the hotel,

765
00:34:49,335 --> 00:34:52,876
I had to put it in the bathroom,
little water in the tub,

766
00:34:53,001 --> 00:34:57,418
and hope like hell he doesn't
break that sink off the wall

767
00:34:57,585 --> 00:34:59,793
or the toilet off the floor,
which they've done.

768
00:34:59,918 --> 00:35:03,293
♪♪

769
00:35:03,418 --> 00:35:05,335
-Well, he's lucky
he's got Damien,

770
00:35:05,460 --> 00:35:07,793
because that's probably
the only friend this man has.

771
00:35:07,918 --> 00:35:09,335
♪♪

772
00:35:09,418 --> 00:35:12,793
-Every good wrestler knows
how to walk the walk.

773
00:35:12,918 --> 00:35:14,460
Hell, if they didn't,

774
00:35:14,585 --> 00:35:17,168
they wouldn't be allowed
to get in the damn ring.

775
00:35:17,251 --> 00:35:20,710
Great wrestlers, well,
they answer the real question --

776
00:35:20,835 --> 00:35:22,876
Can you talk the talk?

777
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:24,835
You want to play something real?

778
00:35:24,918 --> 00:35:26,460
Then you get real
close and listen.

779
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:31,918
[ Cheers and applause ]

780
00:35:32,043 --> 00:35:34,043
-Good guys, bad guys --

781
00:35:34,126 --> 00:35:36,460
in wrestling,
you're one or the other.

782
00:35:36,585 --> 00:35:39,418
I was both.
[ Laughs ]

783
00:35:39,543 --> 00:35:41,210
You know, it's kind of
like that nursery rhyme.

784
00:35:41,335 --> 00:35:46,043
You know, when I was bad,
I was very, very bad.

785
00:35:46,168 --> 00:35:49,793
When I was good,
I was still f------ bad.

786
00:35:49,918 --> 00:35:51,335
Very, very bad.

787
00:35:51,418 --> 00:35:58,710
♪♪

788
00:35:58,876 --> 00:36:01,126
-Now, this Jake Roberts
is a very cruel man.

789
00:36:01,251 --> 00:36:02,960
I doubt if this man
even has any feelings.

790
00:36:03,085 --> 00:36:05,585
-My goodness, this man
causes all kind of controversy

791
00:36:05,710 --> 00:36:08,376
every place he goes,
Jake the Snake.

792
00:36:08,460 --> 00:36:11,293
-Look at this.
Just measuring him here.

793
00:36:11,418 --> 00:36:13,960
Oh, he got caught right
in the middle of that move.

794
00:36:14,085 --> 00:36:19,876
-He was a storyteller,
and I think that's so valuable

795
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:23,376
to being a good performer
is being a good storyteller.

796
00:36:23,501 --> 00:36:25,751
-You heard Heenan yell,
"He's out, he's out."

797
00:36:25,918 --> 00:36:27,293
-Well, he's not out yet.

798
00:36:27,418 --> 00:36:29,501
And Jake always told stories,

799
00:36:29,585 --> 00:36:31,585
and I-I think he was one
of the greatest at it.

800
00:36:31,710 --> 00:36:33,585
-Oh, look at that!

801
00:36:33,751 --> 00:36:35,335
-Jake "The Snake" Roberts
is fired up.

802
00:36:35,418 --> 00:36:37,585
Look at the revenge
in those eyes.

803
00:36:39,585 --> 00:36:42,793
-Jake was such a master villain.

804
00:36:42,918 --> 00:36:44,376
You know, and I always think
of the guy tying the girl

805
00:36:44,501 --> 00:36:46,126
up on the railroad tracks,
I'm thinking of a guy

806
00:36:46,251 --> 00:36:49,585
that looks something like
Jake Roberts,

807
00:36:49,751 --> 00:36:54,835
with a dirty little mustache
and the creepy little eyebrows.

808
00:36:54,918 --> 00:36:56,668
And I don't know if you could
come up with very many villains

809
00:36:56,751 --> 00:36:59,376
in -- in history that were as
good as Jake Roberts.

810
00:36:59,460 --> 00:37:02,335
-And look at that maneuver!
Oh, can you believe that?

811
00:37:02,460 --> 00:37:05,085
-You get Jake the Snake hot,
he is vicious.

812
00:37:05,210 --> 00:37:07,710
He'll strike.

813
00:37:07,876 --> 00:37:11,293
-Man, there is nothing better
than getting the reaction

814
00:37:11,418 --> 00:37:14,210
you want from the fans when you
do the simplest of things

815
00:37:14,335 --> 00:37:16,668
or you do the meanest of things.

816
00:37:16,751 --> 00:37:19,126
♪♪

817
00:37:19,251 --> 00:37:21,918
-One --
-Teasing them.

818
00:37:24,293 --> 00:37:25,751
And I don't want to do that.

819
00:37:25,876 --> 00:37:28,001
"Oh, you son of a bitch."

820
00:37:28,085 --> 00:37:31,335
They'd get so pissed off at me,
man, for not doing it

821
00:37:31,418 --> 00:37:33,210
because I teased them.

822
00:37:33,293 --> 00:37:35,501
You know, if you're gonna
offer it to somebody,

823
00:37:35,585 --> 00:37:37,710
you got to give it to them.

824
00:37:37,835 --> 00:37:42,043
So for me to pull it away
and not do it was a heel move.

825
00:37:42,126 --> 00:37:44,376
I cheated them.

826
00:37:44,501 --> 00:37:47,210
I robbed them of their moment.

827
00:37:47,335 --> 00:37:49,376
-You hate the bad guy.

828
00:37:49,501 --> 00:37:52,251
You love the good guy.

829
00:37:52,376 --> 00:37:53,710
Jake actually redefined that.

830
00:37:53,835 --> 00:37:55,418
-You know, Jake --
he likes to turn it

831
00:37:55,585 --> 00:37:57,585
into a fight, doesn't he?

832
00:37:57,710 --> 00:37:59,543
You know, he's got a lot of
good natural wrestling ability,

833
00:37:59,668 --> 00:38:01,460
but the guy likes to fight.

834
00:38:01,585 --> 00:38:03,335
-He likes to take it any way
you want to take it.

835
00:38:03,418 --> 00:38:05,376
Roughhouse style,
that's the way he'll do it.

836
00:38:05,543 --> 00:38:09,251
Scientific wrestling,
he'll carry you there, too.

837
00:38:09,376 --> 00:38:11,876
-Jake is the first anti-hero.

838
00:38:12,001 --> 00:38:16,251
-Jake "The Snake" Roberts!

839
00:38:16,376 --> 00:38:20,376
-"Stone Cold" Steve Austin
is an anti-hero.

840
00:38:20,460 --> 00:38:23,710
-Diamond Dallas Page
was an anti-hero.

841
00:38:23,835 --> 00:38:25,043
You know, everybody's
got something

842
00:38:25,210 --> 00:38:27,460
in their bag from Jake.

843
00:38:27,585 --> 00:38:29,960
♪♪

844
00:38:30,085 --> 00:38:32,626
-I've got numbness
in my fingers,

845
00:38:32,751 --> 00:38:35,418
but the stiffness and
the numbness and the weakness

846
00:38:35,543 --> 00:38:38,710
are nothing
compared to the hatred

847
00:38:38,835 --> 00:38:42,960
that sits behind
these cold eyes, my man, or...

848
00:38:43,085 --> 00:38:44,585
[ Cheers and applause ]

849
00:38:44,710 --> 00:38:49,251
...the fire -- the fire that
spews ashes out of my brain each

850
00:38:49,418 --> 00:38:51,460
and every time I think of you.

851
00:38:51,585 --> 00:38:54,501
-I don't think anyone ever
has been better

852
00:38:54,626 --> 00:38:56,210
at talking on a microphone

853
00:38:56,335 --> 00:38:58,751
in pro wrestling
than Jake "The Snake" Roberts.

854
00:38:58,918 --> 00:39:00,376
-You're bringing Elizabeth
to the ring

855
00:39:00,501 --> 00:39:03,210
to watch
what you're gonna do to me.

856
00:39:03,293 --> 00:39:05,335
Think about this.

857
00:39:05,460 --> 00:39:07,418
When you look down at your wife,

858
00:39:07,543 --> 00:39:09,835
after I've done
what I'm going to do,

859
00:39:09,918 --> 00:39:11,293
what are you going to do?

860
00:39:11,418 --> 00:39:13,335
Wake her up.

861
00:39:13,418 --> 00:39:17,710
Princess, the glass slipper
doesn't fit this time.

862
00:39:19,418 --> 00:39:21,043
-It's all his eyes.

863
00:39:21,126 --> 00:39:24,793
It's -- It's just the way Jake
looks at the camera.

864
00:39:24,918 --> 00:39:27,585
Jake "The Snake"
was the first wrestler

865
00:39:27,751 --> 00:39:31,376
I ever saw
who didn't need to yell.

866
00:39:31,501 --> 00:39:34,293
-I'm not your average
local yokel from K-Mart.

867
00:39:34,418 --> 00:39:37,168
No, I'm a little bit different.
Yeah.

868
00:39:37,251 --> 00:39:40,376
I think I see things
that people don't normally see,

869
00:39:40,501 --> 00:39:44,043
the little things that
mean so much,

870
00:39:44,168 --> 00:39:48,835
you know, how to look
at a camera and glare or smile.

871
00:39:48,918 --> 00:39:51,918
You see, I've got
something you can't handle.

872
00:39:52,085 --> 00:39:54,376
You or anybody else.

873
00:39:54,501 --> 00:39:56,710
It's DDT.

874
00:39:56,835 --> 00:39:58,626
So, what are you gonna do,
snowman?

875
00:39:58,751 --> 00:40:00,501
Melt.

876
00:40:00,585 --> 00:40:03,668
I learned that as a kid,
how to manipulate emotions

877
00:40:03,793 --> 00:40:06,710
by your facial expressions.

878
00:40:06,835 --> 00:40:08,210
'Cause there were lots of times

879
00:40:08,335 --> 00:40:11,960
that I had to, uh,
spin the wheel

880
00:40:12,085 --> 00:40:14,210
to keep from being abused.

881
00:40:14,335 --> 00:40:16,710
So I learned to
lie at a very young age.

882
00:40:16,793 --> 00:40:19,001
And I know there's only one way
to serve up revenge.

883
00:40:19,085 --> 00:40:20,793
But everybody's a fine cook.

884
00:40:20,918 --> 00:40:23,585
Mama can make grits, and Mama
can make biscuits and gravy.

885
00:40:23,751 --> 00:40:26,043
But the only way you can serve
up revenge is to serve it cold.

886
00:40:26,126 --> 00:40:27,876
-I envied him.

887
00:40:28,043 --> 00:40:33,418
Like, I really wished I
had that ability to turn it off

888
00:40:33,585 --> 00:40:37,543
and on like he did,
to become this --

889
00:40:37,626 --> 00:40:40,710
morph into this character,
good guy or bad guy.

890
00:40:40,876 --> 00:40:45,043
-Anything that I do
is your fault.

891
00:40:45,168 --> 00:40:49,376
Snake in the corner -- Trust me.

892
00:40:49,501 --> 00:40:51,626
Trust me.

893
00:40:51,751 --> 00:40:53,376
-He had a different cadence.

894
00:40:53,501 --> 00:40:56,460
You know, it was almost like
a mystique to him

895
00:40:56,585 --> 00:40:58,376
that he would
almost hypnotize people.

896
00:40:58,460 --> 00:41:00,918
-It's pretty simple to me.

897
00:41:01,043 --> 00:41:04,376
Some people claim to be things
that they're not.

898
00:41:04,501 --> 00:41:05,876
Me, I've always claimed
to be a snake.

899
00:41:06,043 --> 00:41:08,210
I never said I could
walk on water.

900
00:41:08,376 --> 00:41:10,293
I never said that
I could part the sea.

901
00:41:10,418 --> 00:41:12,626
I never said I could feed
the masses with a loaf of bread.

902
00:41:12,751 --> 00:41:14,668
But, then again, I never tried.

903
00:41:14,793 --> 00:41:17,626
-I think the biggest thing
that came from Jake

904
00:41:17,751 --> 00:41:21,543
was just how evil
and how sinister he was.

905
00:41:21,710 --> 00:41:23,626
-You know, what a wicked web
we can weave

906
00:41:23,751 --> 00:41:25,168
when first we labor to deceive.

907
00:41:25,251 --> 00:41:27,210
Now, what I'm telling you
is this.

908
00:41:27,376 --> 00:41:29,710
I've always said I was
on the other side of the fence.

909
00:41:29,876 --> 00:41:31,668
And I ask you --
Oh, yeah, that's where

910
00:41:31,751 --> 00:41:33,710
you're at, too --
you're right with me.

911
00:41:33,835 --> 00:41:35,501
You can't ride the edge,
brother, like I can.

912
00:41:35,585 --> 00:41:37,918
That razor's too sharp for you.

913
00:41:38,085 --> 00:41:39,335
So you think about this.

914
00:41:39,418 --> 00:41:41,918
At WrestleMania,
I'm gonna get what I want.

915
00:41:42,043 --> 00:41:43,501
-I was in a room
watching Jake Roberts

916
00:41:43,585 --> 00:41:46,793
do promos
in front of Vince McMahon.

917
00:41:46,918 --> 00:41:49,543
And I can remember Vince
just going crazy

918
00:41:49,668 --> 00:41:51,626
at how good Jake's promos were.

919
00:41:53,418 --> 00:41:57,918
-Million Dollar Man, you stood
up so proud and you told me,

920
00:41:58,043 --> 00:41:59,668
"If you want
that million-dollar belt,

921
00:41:59,751 --> 00:42:02,501
Jake 'The Snake' Roberts,
you got to come and get it."

922
00:42:02,626 --> 00:42:05,626
-Charisma --
you can't teach it to anybody.

923
00:42:05,751 --> 00:42:07,626
You either have it or you don't.

924
00:42:07,751 --> 00:42:09,668
He's got that savvy.

925
00:42:09,793 --> 00:42:11,918
I can't -- I don't know
how to put it in any other term.

926
00:42:12,043 --> 00:42:13,585
-You see,
Damien and I don't forget.

927
00:42:13,710 --> 00:42:16,376
We remember all the times
you made people grovel

928
00:42:16,501 --> 00:42:18,126
for your money.

929
00:42:18,251 --> 00:42:21,085
These were people
far less fortunate than you,

930
00:42:21,251 --> 00:42:23,876
people who could use
your money for essentials.

931
00:42:24,001 --> 00:42:28,043
-He made you feel
when he was cutting a promo.

932
00:42:28,210 --> 00:42:30,876
He didn't make you feel like
he was talking to "Mean" Gene.

933
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:32,585
He made you feel like he was
talking to you.

934
00:42:32,710 --> 00:42:35,585
-This time, you'll be the one
that's humbled.

935
00:42:35,710 --> 00:42:38,210
This time, you'll be the one
that's humiliated.

936
00:42:38,335 --> 00:42:42,710
And this time, you will be the
one that grovels for the money.

937
00:42:42,876 --> 00:42:45,085
And how appropriate...
[ Chuckles ]

938
00:42:45,251 --> 00:42:48,668
...that the money you grovel for
is your very own.

939
00:42:48,751 --> 00:42:52,418
A victim of your own greed,

940
00:42:52,543 --> 00:42:56,710
wallowing in the muck
of avarice.

941
00:42:58,626 --> 00:43:01,085
-Longfellow couldn't have
said it better.

942
00:43:01,210 --> 00:43:07,210
♪♪

943
00:43:07,335 --> 00:43:10,210
-All that glitters is not gold.

944
00:43:10,293 --> 00:43:11,501
Yeah, Shakespeare wrote that.

945
00:43:11,585 --> 00:43:14,043
Whoa, how about that, hmm?

946
00:43:14,126 --> 00:43:17,126
He was a smart guy.

947
00:43:17,251 --> 00:43:21,043
-I saw my dad more on
television than I did in person.

948
00:43:21,168 --> 00:43:24,543
Do you --
Can imagine what that's like?

949
00:43:24,626 --> 00:43:26,793
Do you know
how mortifying that is?

950
00:43:26,918 --> 00:43:28,460
-We knew what our dad did.

951
00:43:28,585 --> 00:43:32,710
We knew kind of the career
path he chose.

952
00:43:32,835 --> 00:43:36,501
But we didn't really ever know
where he was.

953
00:43:36,585 --> 00:43:38,085
-I didn't see him for years,
and especially

954
00:43:38,210 --> 00:43:42,043
when he first started
making a name for himself.

955
00:43:42,126 --> 00:43:45,293
I don't even know if he knew
that I was even training.

956
00:43:45,418 --> 00:43:49,876
It wasn't the typical
brother-sister family Kumbaya,

957
00:43:50,043 --> 00:43:58,293
you know, and we just didn't --
There was no family support.

958
00:43:58,418 --> 00:44:03,335
-Most people, uh, parent when
their children are young.

959
00:44:03,418 --> 00:44:04,835
You know, my dad didn't.

960
00:44:04,918 --> 00:44:06,710
He didn't parent
when I was young.

961
00:44:06,793 --> 00:44:09,751
He was not around.

962
00:44:09,876 --> 00:44:14,168
So my parents weren't
around each other.

963
00:44:14,251 --> 00:44:16,960
They divorced when I was
in the second grade.

964
00:44:17,085 --> 00:44:21,085
-See, there's a price you pay
for being a wrestler.

965
00:44:21,210 --> 00:44:24,793
But Jake did not see
it wasn't a life.

966
00:44:24,918 --> 00:44:27,710
I thought I was --
"I'm this big star now.

967
00:44:27,793 --> 00:44:29,876
I'm going to make my kids happy.

968
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:32,293
Everybody's going to love me.
Everything's going to be fine."

969
00:44:32,418 --> 00:44:37,085
♪♪

970
00:44:37,210 --> 00:44:40,126
How foolish are we?

971
00:44:40,251 --> 00:44:41,876
You see, that dream
is beautiful, man,

972
00:44:42,001 --> 00:44:46,043
till somebody
takes it away from you.

973
00:44:46,126 --> 00:44:49,918
♪♪

974
00:44:55,335 --> 00:44:57,668
-You know, if you haven't
got a story, you ain't got s---.

975
00:44:57,793 --> 00:45:01,335
-And there it is --
the million-dollar belt.

976
00:45:01,418 --> 00:45:04,293
-The double clothesline,
and the money goes flying!

977
00:45:04,418 --> 00:45:07,085
Mary Tyler Moore gets $100.
[ Cheers and applause ]

978
00:45:07,210 --> 00:45:09,168
-Come on, face it --
a great rivalry,

979
00:45:09,293 --> 00:45:10,335
that makes a great story.

980
00:45:10,418 --> 00:45:11,543
-Aaah!

981
00:45:11,668 --> 00:45:14,126
-[ Laughs ]

982
00:45:14,251 --> 00:45:17,210
-Jake "The Snake" Roberts
and Alice Cooper.

983
00:45:17,335 --> 00:45:19,376
And, boy, has this guy
got a score to settle.

984
00:45:19,501 --> 00:45:21,043
-Whoa!
He broke his guitar!

985
00:45:21,168 --> 00:45:24,585
We haven't seen the last
of this confrontation.

986
00:45:24,751 --> 00:45:26,876
-David and Goliath,

987
00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:30,085
Apollo Creed and Rocky.

988
00:45:30,210 --> 00:45:33,793
You got to be
fighting something.

989
00:45:33,918 --> 00:45:36,501
-Ricky Steamboat, you're gonna
be the first big test

990
00:45:36,585 --> 00:45:37,418
for Jake "The Snake"
in his career,

991
00:45:37,585 --> 00:45:38,960
and tonight's the night.

992
00:45:39,085 --> 00:45:40,751
-I've seen too many
good wrestlers go down

993
00:45:40,918 --> 00:45:42,626
and be humiliated by this man,

994
00:45:42,751 --> 00:45:44,210
laying that snake
across the body.

995
00:45:44,335 --> 00:45:46,335
I won't tolerate that,
Jake Roberts.

996
00:45:46,460 --> 00:45:48,001
-Back with more of
Saturday night's main event,

997
00:45:48,085 --> 00:45:50,126
the match we have anticipated
coming up now --

998
00:45:50,251 --> 00:45:52,043
Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat
squaring off

999
00:45:52,210 --> 00:45:54,626
against the undefeated
Jake "The Snake" Roberts.

1000
00:45:54,751 --> 00:45:56,418
-Well, they came to me,
and they said,

1001
00:45:56,543 --> 00:46:02,043
"Jake, we want you to
DDT Steamboat on the floor."

1002
00:46:02,126 --> 00:46:04,376
And I'm like, "Holy s---,
I can't do that."

1003
00:46:04,543 --> 00:46:05,710
-Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat,

1004
00:46:05,835 --> 00:46:07,418
one of the most popular athletes
in the

1005
00:46:07,543 --> 00:46:09,043
World Wrestling Entertainment
today, saying hello.

1006
00:46:09,210 --> 00:46:11,501
Wait a minute.
Off the rope now.

1007
00:46:11,626 --> 00:46:13,543
Ooh!
What a clothesline.

1008
00:46:13,626 --> 00:46:15,251
-They were like, "Why not?"

1009
00:46:15,376 --> 00:46:18,210
I said, "'Cause if I do it,
I'll kill him."

1010
00:46:18,335 --> 00:46:20,210
-The Ricky Steamboat
match was brutal.

1011
00:46:20,293 --> 00:46:22,043
-Another clothesline!
Down to the concrete.

1012
00:46:22,126 --> 00:46:25,210
-This isn't the modern era
outside the ring.

1013
00:46:25,335 --> 00:46:28,918
This is a cement floor
of an arena.

1014
00:46:29,085 --> 00:46:33,293
-"Do you understand death?
This will kill him."

1015
00:46:33,418 --> 00:46:35,210
"Well, that's what --"
You know, Steamboat came to me,

1016
00:46:35,293 --> 00:46:38,043
and he's like,
"Jake, do it to me.

1017
00:46:38,168 --> 00:46:41,376
I can protect myself.
I know what to do."

1018
00:46:41,543 --> 00:46:43,210
I said, "Ricky, you don't."

1019
00:46:43,293 --> 00:46:45,210
I was right.
It damn near killed him.

1020
00:46:45,293 --> 00:46:49,960
-He's signaling for that DDT.
-He's not -- Oh, no!

1021
00:46:50,085 --> 00:46:52,460
-Hey, Steamboat,
that's using your head.

1022
00:46:52,585 --> 00:46:54,335
-Oh, my goodness.

1023
00:46:56,710 --> 00:46:59,710
-It sounded like a hand grenade
went off in my brain.

1024
00:46:59,876 --> 00:47:01,960
Exploded.

1025
00:47:02,085 --> 00:47:04,460
-Steamboat unconscious.

1026
00:47:04,585 --> 00:47:06,960
He has to be totally out of it.

1027
00:47:07,085 --> 00:47:09,793
-At the time,
I thought he was dead.

1028
00:47:09,918 --> 00:47:11,960
It was horrifying, man.

1029
00:47:12,085 --> 00:47:15,543
-Ricky Steamboat,
back into the ring.

1030
00:47:15,710 --> 00:47:17,418
I think "The Dragon" is out.

1031
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:20,085
-[ Imitates explosion ]

1032
00:47:20,210 --> 00:47:23,335
Swelled up,
had a bad concussion.

1033
00:47:23,460 --> 00:47:25,626
Was taken to the hospital.

1034
00:47:25,751 --> 00:47:27,543
The whole side of my face
blew up.

1035
00:47:27,626 --> 00:47:31,293
-Ricky Steamboat
still unconscious.

1036
00:47:31,418 --> 00:47:34,793
-That DDT on the outside
of the ring was the first time

1037
00:47:34,918 --> 00:47:36,293
that you really saw

1038
00:47:36,418 --> 00:47:38,710
just how vicious
Jake "The Snake" could be.

1039
00:47:38,876 --> 00:47:40,876
[ Cheers and applause ]

1040
00:47:41,001 --> 00:47:42,626
-As cold as a razor blade,

1041
00:47:42,751 --> 00:47:45,793
as tight as a tourniquet
like the skin on a dying man.

1042
00:47:45,918 --> 00:47:48,835
Randy Savage, the last time
I seen you,

1043
00:47:48,918 --> 00:47:51,626
you were flailing
like some helpless child.

1044
00:47:51,751 --> 00:47:53,626
-You think
that you're Shakespeare.

1045
00:47:53,751 --> 00:47:55,043
You think that you're
so eloquent

1046
00:47:55,126 --> 00:47:57,585
when you talk, snake man.

1047
00:47:57,710 --> 00:47:59,376
But I don't like
anything about you.

1048
00:47:59,501 --> 00:48:02,043
-Look at that snake eyes,
and you'll see something so cold

1049
00:48:02,168 --> 00:48:04,043
and so devilish
and so deliberate.

1050
00:48:04,210 --> 00:48:06,210
Yes, he takes care
of what he has to,

1051
00:48:06,335 --> 00:48:08,751
does what he has to,
just like me.

1052
00:48:08,876 --> 00:48:10,960
-Jake Roberts
all over Randy Savage!

1053
00:48:11,085 --> 00:48:14,210
Tying him up in the ropes!

1054
00:48:14,335 --> 00:48:16,918
-Get out of there, Macho!
Look at that!

1055
00:48:17,043 --> 00:48:18,960
-Roberts with a king cobra.

1056
00:48:19,085 --> 00:48:21,210
Keep it away from him!

1057
00:48:21,376 --> 00:48:23,043
-Wait a minute!
The snake is on him!

1058
00:48:23,168 --> 00:48:26,126
Oh, and the snake is biting him!
The snake is biting him!

1059
00:48:27,335 --> 00:48:30,293
-Mind blown.

1060
00:48:30,418 --> 00:48:34,043
-The snake is gnawing
on the arm of Randy Savage,

1061
00:48:34,126 --> 00:48:37,168
who's helpless,
tied to the ropes!

1062
00:48:37,293 --> 00:48:39,710
-[ Laughs ]
I remember before Randy agreed

1063
00:48:39,835 --> 00:48:43,001
to do it
that the cobra bite Jake first.

1064
00:48:43,126 --> 00:48:47,168
-All I can say is that snake
better be de-venomized.

1065
00:48:47,251 --> 00:48:49,293
-I let the snake bite me.

1066
00:48:49,418 --> 00:48:54,960
But when his turn came up, boy,
did he light him up.

1067
00:48:55,085 --> 00:48:57,335
-I got really freaked out
because it was

1068
00:48:57,418 --> 00:48:59,918
only supposed to be
for a couple seconds.

1069
00:49:00,043 --> 00:49:02,001
And then Jake -- I don't know

1070
00:49:02,126 --> 00:49:03,835
if he didn't want to
tear Randy's arm apart,

1071
00:49:03,918 --> 00:49:05,043
or if he had some problems
with the snake,

1072
00:49:05,168 --> 00:49:07,126
but the snake would not release.

1073
00:49:07,251 --> 00:49:09,168
-The snake digs deeper!

1074
00:49:09,251 --> 00:49:11,710
-[ Laughing ] Oh, s---.

1075
00:49:11,835 --> 00:49:14,543
Oh, my God.
My favorite time.

1076
00:49:14,668 --> 00:49:16,876
[ Laughs ]

1077
00:49:17,001 --> 00:49:20,835
-Jake "The Snake" has lost it.
-He's sick!

1078
00:49:20,918 --> 00:49:23,543
-This is disgraceful!
This is despicable!

1079
00:49:23,668 --> 00:49:26,460
He should be suspended for life!

1080
00:49:26,585 --> 00:49:27,876
[ Crowd jeering ]

1081
00:49:28,001 --> 00:49:31,960
-[ Speaking indistinctly ]

1082
00:49:32,085 --> 00:49:36,251
-This allowed Jake
to really thrive

1083
00:49:36,418 --> 00:49:38,710
as the monster that he could be.

1084
00:49:38,835 --> 00:49:40,376
-It was pretty powerful TV,

1085
00:49:40,501 --> 00:49:44,835
and then people started
cheering the bad guy.

1086
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:47,210
They started cheering
the monster, right?

1087
00:49:47,335 --> 00:49:50,210
This indestructible force
that just changed the way

1088
00:49:50,335 --> 00:49:52,876
people think about
what good guys and bad guys are.

1089
00:49:53,043 --> 00:49:56,543
-Just who in the hell
do you think you are?

1090
00:49:56,626 --> 00:49:59,710
And whose side are you on?

1091
00:49:59,835 --> 00:50:02,043
-Not yours.

1092
00:50:02,126 --> 00:50:04,335
[ Cheers and applause ]

1093
00:50:04,460 --> 00:50:06,126
-I owe you one.

1094
00:50:06,251 --> 00:50:09,210
Don't turn your back on me.

1095
00:50:09,293 --> 00:50:10,376
-Oh, wait a minute!
-No!

1096
00:50:10,501 --> 00:50:12,626
You've locked it!
What have you done?

1097
00:50:12,751 --> 00:50:14,751
-His hand -- His hand is caught
in the end of that coffin.

1098
00:50:14,918 --> 00:50:16,710
-Wait a minute.

1099
00:50:16,835 --> 00:50:18,626
Oh, look at that!

1100
00:50:18,751 --> 00:50:21,293
Jake just --
And again!

1101
00:50:21,418 --> 00:50:23,376
-Oh!
-Oh!

1102
00:50:23,501 --> 00:50:26,710
-And he beats the crap out of me
with a chair,

1103
00:50:26,793 --> 00:50:28,710
but I keep coming, right?

1104
00:50:28,835 --> 00:50:30,210
I just keep going after him.

1105
00:50:30,335 --> 00:50:32,501
-Undertaker is coming for him.

1106
00:50:32,626 --> 00:50:35,460
-Jake was so brilliant
with his reactions of,

1107
00:50:35,585 --> 00:50:37,251
"What have I
gotten myself into here?"

1108
00:50:37,418 --> 00:50:39,960
-The Undertaker
slowly but surely

1109
00:50:40,085 --> 00:50:43,168
continuing to stalk
Jake "The Snake" Roberts.

1110
00:50:43,251 --> 00:50:47,335
-It just set the tone for,
"Wow! What's gonna happen

1111
00:50:47,418 --> 00:50:48,626
when Undertaker
gets his revenge?"

1112
00:50:48,751 --> 00:50:50,460
-Oh, my.

1113
00:50:50,585 --> 00:50:54,626
Nothing is going to stop
the Undertaker.

1114
00:50:54,751 --> 00:50:57,168
-WrestleMania VIII,
Indianapolis, the Hoosier Dome.

1115
00:50:57,293 --> 00:50:59,626
Let me tell you something,
Mr. Undertaker.

1116
00:50:59,751 --> 00:51:01,543
Claim to be from the dark side.

1117
00:51:01,710 --> 00:51:03,585
I'm gonna show you what
the devil's all about, my man.

1118
00:51:03,710 --> 00:51:06,793
Me and Satan walked side by side
for a long time.

1119
00:51:06,918 --> 00:51:08,876
Shared the same thoughts.

1120
00:51:09,043 --> 00:51:09,876
Shared the same souls.

1121
00:51:10,043 --> 00:51:12,335
[ Dramatic music plays ]

1122
00:51:12,418 --> 00:51:16,043
-A very cunning,
a very dangerous individual.

1123
00:51:16,168 --> 00:51:18,293
But he may just have dug
his own grave.

1124
00:51:18,418 --> 00:51:21,918
-Jake "The Snake" Roberts!

1125
00:51:22,043 --> 00:51:25,543
[ Cheers and applause ]

1126
00:51:25,626 --> 00:51:30,210
His opponent,
weighing 328 pounds...

1127
00:51:30,335 --> 00:51:32,543
-Somebody's gonna get hurt here.

1128
00:51:32,710 --> 00:51:35,126
-...the Undertaker!

1129
00:51:35,251 --> 00:51:37,043
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Look at Jake.

1130
00:51:37,168 --> 00:51:38,585
He's ready, Monsoon.

1131
00:51:38,710 --> 00:51:40,210
[ Cheers and applause ]

1132
00:51:40,335 --> 00:51:43,210
-By the time you get
to WrestleMania VIII,

1133
00:51:43,293 --> 00:51:45,835
Undertaker is truly
getting to his prime

1134
00:51:45,960 --> 00:51:48,126
as an absolute dominant force.

1135
00:51:48,251 --> 00:51:50,793
[ Cheers and applause ]

1136
00:51:50,918 --> 00:51:52,543
-Whoa!

1137
00:51:52,710 --> 00:51:56,876
Now he's pulled "The Snake"
outside with him!

1138
00:51:57,001 --> 00:51:59,543
-Oh!
-Oh, right into the steel post!

1139
00:51:59,668 --> 00:52:04,668
-The fact that Jake was
a viable opponent for Undertaker

1140
00:52:04,751 --> 00:52:06,543
at WrestleMania,

1141
00:52:06,668 --> 00:52:08,918
that says a lot in
and of itself.

1142
00:52:09,085 --> 00:52:10,168
-Tremendous --
Well, there it is!

1143
00:52:10,293 --> 00:52:11,543
-He did it!
He did it.

1144
00:52:11,710 --> 00:52:16,043
[ Humming Chopin's
"Funeral March" ]

1145
00:52:16,126 --> 00:52:17,876
-He is out.
-He is not making any moves.

1146
00:52:18,001 --> 00:52:19,251
And, oh, look at that!

1147
00:52:19,376 --> 00:52:22,751
He sat right up!
-Oh, no. Oh, my God.

1148
00:52:22,918 --> 00:52:26,376
-And that was the first time
that I had Tombstoned, you know,

1149
00:52:26,460 --> 00:52:28,960
anyone really
outside of the ring.

1150
00:52:29,085 --> 00:52:32,418
[ Cheers and applause ]

1151
00:52:32,585 --> 00:52:35,126
-No, not on the floor!
-Oh! Tombstone!

1152
00:52:35,251 --> 00:52:37,835
-Oh!
-Tombstone city!

1153
00:52:40,376 --> 00:52:42,418
-It was kind of
an exclamation point

1154
00:52:42,585 --> 00:52:45,543
because Jake went away after --

1155
00:52:45,626 --> 00:52:47,543
you know,
after that WrestleMania.

1156
00:52:47,626 --> 00:52:49,418
-One, two, three.

1157
00:52:49,585 --> 00:52:52,251
Holy mackerel!
[ Bell dings ]

1158
00:52:52,376 --> 00:52:55,376
I've never seen
Jake "The Snake" defeated

1159
00:52:55,460 --> 00:52:58,960
that severely as I've seen him
at the hands of the Undertaker.

1160
00:52:59,085 --> 00:53:00,835
That was actually the end.

1161
00:53:00,918 --> 00:53:05,585
That was Jake's final story
in the WWE for a very long time.

1162
00:53:05,751 --> 00:53:08,293
[ Somber music plays ]

1163
00:53:08,418 --> 00:53:15,376
-It was a really hard time
for me at the show because I --

1164
00:53:15,543 --> 00:53:20,251
My life as I knew
it was about to end.

1165
00:53:20,418 --> 00:53:24,543
-You could kind of see
it getting out of control.

1166
00:53:24,710 --> 00:53:27,168
You know, before he left,
you could tell that it was --

1167
00:53:27,251 --> 00:53:31,085
it was becoming -- the --
The outer-ring stuff

1168
00:53:31,210 --> 00:53:33,210
was becoming
a little more important

1169
00:53:33,335 --> 00:53:35,710
than the -- the in-ring.

1170
00:53:37,251 --> 00:53:39,543
-I went off the deep end.

1171
00:53:39,668 --> 00:53:43,876
You know, idle hands,
the devil's playground.

1172
00:53:44,043 --> 00:53:47,793
♪

1173
00:53:47,918 --> 00:53:52,751
I spun out of control
for the next 15, 20 years.

1174
00:53:54,668 --> 00:53:56,626
♪

1175
00:54:01,085 --> 00:54:03,126
♪♪

1176
00:54:03,251 --> 00:54:05,543
-I want to talk about people

1177
00:54:05,668 --> 00:54:10,543
that have reached the pinnacle
of success in their own sports.

1178
00:54:10,668 --> 00:54:13,751
But what do they do?
What do they do?

1179
00:54:13,918 --> 00:54:18,210
A moment's weakness,
and they take the devil's powder

1180
00:54:18,376 --> 00:54:19,835
and they run it up their nose.

1181
00:54:19,918 --> 00:54:22,126
They call it cocaine,
say it's a good time,

1182
00:54:22,251 --> 00:54:24,376
and their careers are gone.

1183
00:54:24,543 --> 00:54:33,251
♪

1184
00:54:33,418 --> 00:54:39,585
All addiction is, is when
you're able to be satisfied

1185
00:54:39,751 --> 00:54:45,710
in life with a drug
or a drink and nothing else.

1186
00:54:45,793 --> 00:54:50,543
That's all I cared about --
how much coke did I have?

1187
00:54:50,710 --> 00:54:56,085
Because when I ran out of dope,
everything else was gone.

1188
00:54:56,251 --> 00:54:58,376
I was gone.

1189
00:55:01,918 --> 00:55:04,710
-'Cause he'd been wrestling
since he was, you know, 20,

1190
00:55:04,876 --> 00:55:07,376
so his body was hurting.

1191
00:55:07,460 --> 00:55:09,168
And you got to
try to kill the pain.

1192
00:55:09,251 --> 00:55:12,043
And he made a lot of choices

1193
00:55:12,168 --> 00:55:14,543
that were not good choices.

1194
00:55:14,710 --> 00:55:17,085
♪

1195
00:55:17,210 --> 00:55:24,210
-Man, we were out there 25,
26 days a month, man, at least.

1196
00:55:24,376 --> 00:55:26,085
At least.

1197
00:55:26,210 --> 00:55:27,501
When I came off the road,

1198
00:55:27,626 --> 00:55:30,126
I was so friggin' beat up,

1199
00:55:30,251 --> 00:55:32,960
and I barely would have time to
wash my clothes and repack them

1200
00:55:33,085 --> 00:55:34,585
and would take off again.

1201
00:55:34,751 --> 00:55:40,418
♪

1202
00:55:40,585 --> 00:55:43,543
-I spent a lot of time
with Jake.

1203
00:55:43,668 --> 00:55:47,585
And I got to see
some of that firsthand.

1204
00:55:47,710 --> 00:55:49,460
You know,
he would stay up all night

1205
00:55:49,585 --> 00:55:51,960
and -- and party
and do whatever.

1206
00:55:53,960 --> 00:55:57,793
-At the point where he did
become more famous, certainly,

1207
00:55:57,918 --> 00:56:04,085
and more successful than
our father, he's like a tornado.

1208
00:56:04,210 --> 00:56:06,876
He just spun
right out of control.

1209
00:56:07,043 --> 00:56:09,210
♪

1210
00:56:09,335 --> 00:56:10,710
-People want to be around you

1211
00:56:10,835 --> 00:56:12,710
and they want you
to come to their bars

1212
00:56:12,876 --> 00:56:15,710
and they want you to --
So all -- all of these things

1213
00:56:15,876 --> 00:56:19,293
that were -- you know,
that were Jake's demon,

1214
00:56:19,418 --> 00:56:22,876
people are just, you know,
presenting it to him.

1215
00:56:22,960 --> 00:56:27,793
♪♪

1216
00:56:29,626 --> 00:56:33,876
-In 1993, I had just graduated
from high school, and...

1217
00:56:37,126 --> 00:56:40,501
he was "sober."

1218
00:56:40,626 --> 00:56:43,751
And he was making it work
in his second family.

1219
00:56:45,793 --> 00:56:48,585
And I packed everything
and moved to Georgia

1220
00:56:48,751 --> 00:56:52,210
for the first time,
to go to college.

1221
00:56:52,335 --> 00:56:54,251
He talked to my mom.

1222
00:56:54,376 --> 00:56:56,876
We packed everything up

1223
00:56:57,001 --> 00:56:59,918
and took the risk
because he was my dad.

1224
00:57:03,085 --> 00:57:07,210
And, so, he smoked crack

1225
00:57:07,293 --> 00:57:11,251
the entire drive

1226
00:57:11,418 --> 00:57:16,793
from Texas to Georgia.

1227
00:57:16,918 --> 00:57:18,835
I drove.

1228
00:57:18,918 --> 00:57:21,501
He smoked crack.

1229
00:57:21,585 --> 00:57:25,168
Because when he drove
and smoked crack,

1230
00:57:25,251 --> 00:57:27,751
I was terrified for my life.

1231
00:57:27,876 --> 00:57:33,543
♪♪

1232
00:57:33,668 --> 00:57:35,710
-Growing up, I always swore
that I would never,

1233
00:57:35,835 --> 00:57:41,668
ever treat my children
the way my father treated me.

1234
00:57:41,793 --> 00:57:45,710
I-I swore that up and down
a million times.

1235
00:57:47,585 --> 00:57:50,085
And what did I do?

1236
00:57:50,210 --> 00:57:54,543
♪♪

1237
00:57:54,668 --> 00:57:56,835
I wasn't there
for my children either.

1238
00:57:56,918 --> 00:58:00,710
-During the time of our teen
years and towards --

1239
00:58:00,835 --> 00:58:05,418
on towards adulthood,
we didn't --

1240
00:58:05,585 --> 00:58:07,168
we didn't see him a lot.

1241
00:58:07,251 --> 00:58:09,793
He was an absentee father.

1242
00:58:09,918 --> 00:58:13,126
He was a dad that everyone
wanted to have

1243
00:58:13,251 --> 00:58:16,793
but didn't know what that meant
and what it looked like.

1244
00:58:16,918 --> 00:58:18,751
-Those are the darkest moments
of my life

1245
00:58:18,918 --> 00:58:23,918
because of him not being there.

1246
00:58:24,043 --> 00:58:27,585
Being an absentee father
really has an impact on you

1247
00:58:27,751 --> 00:58:30,001
when -- when you're trying
to figure out who you are.

1248
00:58:30,085 --> 00:58:32,460
♪♪

1249
00:58:32,585 --> 00:58:34,126
-You know,
as a kid, you still just want

1250
00:58:34,251 --> 00:58:37,168
your father's love, so...

1251
00:58:37,251 --> 00:58:40,751
♪♪

1252
00:58:40,876 --> 00:58:44,376
-Too busy being a star.

1253
00:58:44,501 --> 00:58:47,210
Or a drunk or a drug addict.

1254
00:58:47,293 --> 00:58:49,126
♪♪

1255
00:58:49,251 --> 00:58:51,626
Wasn't there.

1256
00:58:51,751 --> 00:58:54,043
-And it's hard.

1257
00:58:54,210 --> 00:58:56,251
♪

1258
00:58:56,418 --> 00:58:59,418
It's real hard.

1259
00:58:59,543 --> 00:59:04,043
Because I -- I'd do anything
for my kids.

1260
00:59:04,168 --> 00:59:06,376
And I can't imagine,
as a father, not doing that

1261
00:59:06,501 --> 00:59:09,710
for your own kids,

1262
00:59:09,835 --> 00:59:12,376
knowing the hurt
you've caused them,

1263
00:59:12,460 --> 00:59:15,043
some of the pain
that they live with.

1264
00:59:15,126 --> 00:59:18,210
♪♪

1265
00:59:18,293 --> 00:59:21,210
So for that,
you know, I-I don't understand.

1266
00:59:21,293 --> 00:59:23,668
I never will.

1267
00:59:30,585 --> 00:59:34,793
-1996, I came back
to the WWE -- briefly.

1268
00:59:34,918 --> 00:59:37,168
I was actually being given
the spot I'd asked for,

1269
00:59:37,293 --> 00:59:38,876
that I would be part of the
booking committee

1270
00:59:38,960 --> 00:59:44,793
and in writing,
and it was a great thing.

1271
00:59:44,918 --> 00:59:46,751
The most important thing
to Jake Roberts today

1272
00:59:46,876 --> 00:59:48,751
is giving glory to God.

1273
00:59:48,876 --> 00:59:51,210
[ Cheers and applause ]

1274
00:59:51,335 --> 00:59:56,335
Because without the blood
of the lamb that was put on me

1275
00:59:56,418 --> 00:59:59,710
by a gift from Jesus,
a victory so many years ago,

1276
00:59:59,835 --> 01:00:03,210
I would not be
standing here today.

1277
01:00:03,335 --> 01:00:06,918
-Jake came back in 1996
as a born-again Christian

1278
01:00:07,085 --> 01:00:10,543
because he was born again
and he had found sobriety

1279
01:00:10,668 --> 01:00:12,710
and he had found God

1280
01:00:12,793 --> 01:00:14,376
and he was going around
the country talking about it.

1281
01:00:14,501 --> 01:00:17,043
And this really
was his personality.

1282
01:00:17,126 --> 01:00:19,793
-No, the snake's not named
Damien no more.

1283
01:00:19,918 --> 01:00:23,876
This is Revelations.
This is the truth.

1284
01:00:23,960 --> 01:00:27,251
And I will use this serpent
to expose the darkness

1285
01:00:27,376 --> 01:00:28,501
to the true light.

1286
01:00:28,626 --> 01:00:35,793
[ Cheers and applause ]

1287
01:00:35,918 --> 01:00:37,626
-He was willing to include
that sort of

1288
01:00:37,751 --> 01:00:39,960
as part of his character,

1289
01:00:40,085 --> 01:00:43,251
the recovering alcoholic
who had found God.

1290
01:00:43,376 --> 01:00:47,293
-I've got it on good authority
that poor Jake

1291
01:00:47,418 --> 01:00:49,960
has fallen
off the wagon again.

1292
01:00:50,085 --> 01:00:53,251
He missed his double "A"
or his AA meeting.

1293
01:00:53,376 --> 01:00:56,543
As a matter of fact,
with Jake, it's a AAA meeting.

1294
01:00:56,668 --> 01:00:58,251
I hammered him pretty hard.

1295
01:00:58,418 --> 01:01:00,501
I mean, you know, it was all
about the drinking, the booze,

1296
01:01:00,626 --> 01:01:02,210
and all of that sort of stuff.

1297
01:01:02,293 --> 01:01:04,793
I mean, it was constant, just
hammering him, hammering him.

1298
01:01:04,918 --> 01:01:06,793
-Oh, it's driving him crazy,
not having that.

1299
01:01:06,918 --> 01:01:10,543
-There was one time that I
poured whiskey down his throat,

1300
01:01:10,668 --> 01:01:12,043
and it was real whiskey.

1301
01:01:12,168 --> 01:01:16,376
-He's not gonna do this to Jake.
-Oh, my goodness.

1302
01:01:16,460 --> 01:01:18,335
-And that's raw --
That's raw booze

1303
01:01:18,460 --> 01:01:19,960
he's dumping down Jake's throat.

1304
01:01:20,085 --> 01:01:22,126
Look at this.
-I-I'm sorry for it, too.

1305
01:01:22,251 --> 01:01:24,418
I believe it did have some
long-lasting effects,

1306
01:01:24,585 --> 01:01:26,293
because that's something that --

1307
01:01:26,418 --> 01:01:29,210
You know, sobriety is something
that's an ongoing process.

1308
01:01:30,960 --> 01:01:33,376
-Oh, my God.
-You hear what Jake said?

1309
01:01:33,501 --> 01:01:36,210
He wants to know if anybody's
got a beer for a chaser.

1310
01:01:36,335 --> 01:01:38,210
[ Laughs ]

1311
01:01:38,376 --> 01:01:42,710
♪

1312
01:01:42,835 --> 01:01:45,626
-When you think
about Jake's return in 1996,

1313
01:01:45,751 --> 01:01:49,376
what you think about most
is King of the Ring

1314
01:01:49,501 --> 01:01:50,876
and "Stone Cold" Steve Austin.

1315
01:01:51,001 --> 01:01:54,751
-There it is! It's over!
-That's it.

1316
01:01:54,876 --> 01:01:56,418
-And the Stunner applied again.

1317
01:01:56,543 --> 01:01:59,043
One, two, and he got him!

1318
01:01:59,126 --> 01:02:01,710
[ Bell dings ]

1319
01:02:03,335 --> 01:02:06,835
-The King of the Ring,
"Stone Cold" Steve Austin.

1320
01:02:06,918 --> 01:02:09,418
An incredible victory.

1321
01:02:09,543 --> 01:02:12,793
[ Crowd shouting ]

1322
01:02:12,918 --> 01:02:15,876
-Get that piece of crap
out of my ring.

1323
01:02:16,001 --> 01:02:19,668
You ain't got
what it takes anymore.

1324
01:02:19,793 --> 01:02:22,543
You sit there
and you thump your Bible

1325
01:02:22,626 --> 01:02:27,793
and you say your prayers,
and it didn't get you anywhere.

1326
01:02:27,918 --> 01:02:29,293
Talk about your Psalms.

1327
01:02:29,418 --> 01:02:31,918
Talk about John 3:16.

1328
01:02:32,043 --> 01:02:36,460
Austin 3:16 says I just
whipped your ass.

1329
01:02:36,585 --> 01:02:38,376
[ Cheers and applause ]

1330
01:02:38,501 --> 01:02:42,960
And that's the bottom line
because Stone Cold said so.

1331
01:02:43,085 --> 01:02:47,001
-If Jake the Snake
isn't a born-again Christian,

1332
01:02:47,085 --> 01:02:50,876
then he never references
John 3:16.

1333
01:02:50,960 --> 01:02:55,418
And if Jake doesn't reference
John 3:16,

1334
01:02:55,543 --> 01:02:57,751
there's no Austin 3:16.

1335
01:02:57,918 --> 01:03:03,210
You can never forget
that the Attitude era and the --

1336
01:03:03,293 --> 01:03:08,543
and the future of wrestling
was incredibly affected

1337
01:03:08,626 --> 01:03:11,543
by Jake's appearance
in 1996 and '97.

1338
01:03:14,085 --> 01:03:19,043
-The disheartening thing about
an addict is he'll do anything,

1339
01:03:19,210 --> 01:03:24,418
lie, cheat, steal,
rob, even kill...

1340
01:03:24,585 --> 01:03:26,126
[ Scoffs ]

1341
01:03:26,251 --> 01:03:32,210
...or even lie to himself to
have one more hit.

1342
01:03:37,710 --> 01:03:40,001
-They say when you hit bottom,
it's time to stop digging.

1343
01:03:40,085 --> 01:03:41,876
You know,
that's real easy to say,

1344
01:03:42,043 --> 01:03:43,918
especially when you're
sitting on top

1345
01:03:44,085 --> 01:03:48,460
looking down at the dumbass
that's digging his own grave.

1346
01:03:48,585 --> 01:03:49,918
♪

1347
01:03:50,043 --> 01:03:53,876
Down there is, uh --
is real dark.

1348
01:03:53,960 --> 01:03:56,210
There's no light.

1349
01:03:56,293 --> 01:03:59,751
So what do you do?
You just keep digging.

1350
01:03:59,876 --> 01:04:02,335
♪♪

1351
01:04:02,460 --> 01:04:05,835
-Jake "The Snake" Roberts!

1352
01:04:05,918 --> 01:04:09,543
-I was at the top of my game
in '93 and again in '96,

1353
01:04:09,710 --> 01:04:11,376
main event anywhere I went.

1354
01:04:11,543 --> 01:04:14,293
-And the fans all over the
World Wrestling Entertainment

1355
01:04:14,418 --> 01:04:16,710
enamored with the great
Jake the Snake.

1356
01:04:16,793 --> 01:04:18,585
-Here it comes.
-You see the DDT!

1357
01:04:18,751 --> 01:04:20,460
-It soured pretty quick

1358
01:04:20,585 --> 01:04:25,085
because I couldn't be around
wrestlers that were partying.

1359
01:04:25,210 --> 01:04:26,960
I wasn't strong enough.

1360
01:04:27,085 --> 01:04:28,876
Christian or not, man,
you got to fight the devil

1361
01:04:29,001 --> 01:04:30,293
every damn day.

1362
01:04:30,418 --> 01:04:34,043
[ Bell dings ]

1363
01:04:34,168 --> 01:04:39,918
-Winner of this contest,
Jake "The Snake" Roberts!

1364
01:04:40,043 --> 01:04:43,376
-The only comfort I could find
was a drink and a drug.

1365
01:04:43,501 --> 01:04:46,210
It was the only thing
that made pain go away.

1366
01:04:46,376 --> 01:04:51,001
But as I turned to it, it wound
up destroying everything,

1367
01:04:51,085 --> 01:04:53,376
every hope,
every dream that I ever had.

1368
01:04:53,460 --> 01:04:57,835
[ Cheers and applause ]

1369
01:04:57,960 --> 01:05:01,876
My wife was smart.
She got away from me.

1370
01:05:02,001 --> 01:05:04,001
She gave me a choice.

1371
01:05:04,085 --> 01:05:08,876
"You can do your drugs
and drink,

1372
01:05:09,043 --> 01:05:11,126
but you can't stay here
and do it."

1373
01:05:11,251 --> 01:05:13,293
And she stood her ground.

1374
01:05:13,418 --> 01:05:15,501
♪

1375
01:05:15,626 --> 01:05:17,960
And we separated and divorced.

1376
01:05:18,085 --> 01:05:23,043
When that happened, all hell
broke loose inside of me.

1377
01:05:23,210 --> 01:05:26,126
♪

1378
01:05:26,251 --> 01:05:31,543
Cocaine speeds me up so fast,
I can't think about my past.

1379
01:05:31,626 --> 01:05:38,876
It speeds me up so fast that
I don't have to be responsible.

1380
01:05:39,001 --> 01:05:42,460
-The Jake of 1998...

1381
01:05:45,918 --> 01:05:48,710
you couldn't be
in the room with.

1382
01:05:48,793 --> 01:05:52,751
It was painful to be with him.

1383
01:05:52,876 --> 01:05:54,585
-I'm just getting really...

1384
01:05:58,918 --> 01:06:01,376
really...up inside.

1385
01:06:04,710 --> 01:06:06,918
I don't know where to go.

1386
01:06:07,085 --> 01:06:11,835
-[ Crying ] I was grateful
when he stayed away.

1387
01:06:11,918 --> 01:06:13,585
I was...

1388
01:06:20,168 --> 01:06:23,543
I've never said that out loud.

1389
01:06:23,710 --> 01:06:25,293
-Thank you, gentlemen.

1390
01:06:25,418 --> 01:06:27,876
Back here, I have a man
of legendary proportions.

1391
01:06:28,043 --> 01:06:30,085
The man,
Jake "The Snake" Roberts.

1392
01:06:30,251 --> 01:06:31,918
He is a man
that you all recognize.

1393
01:06:32,043 --> 01:06:33,876
He's a legend.

1394
01:06:34,001 --> 01:06:34,835
-He was one of the first
to come to Casino Magic.

1395
01:06:34,918 --> 01:06:37,001
-Oh!

1396
01:06:37,085 --> 01:06:39,460
-You know, you're in a casino,
and everybody says,

1397
01:06:39,585 --> 01:06:41,585
"Well, gosh, a casino,
you should gamble."

1398
01:06:41,751 --> 01:06:43,085
Let me tell you something, man.

1399
01:06:43,251 --> 01:06:46,626
Well, you don't want to
play cards with me

1400
01:06:46,751 --> 01:06:49,585
because I'll cheat, okay?

1401
01:06:49,751 --> 01:06:51,043
I cheat.

1402
01:06:51,168 --> 01:06:53,460
-I don't think Jake knows
where he is.

1403
01:06:53,585 --> 01:06:54,585
-I don't think
they're gonna fight

1404
01:06:54,710 --> 01:06:56,585
the way things are going now.

1405
01:06:56,710 --> 01:07:03,835
-I'm ashamed to tell you the --
the depth of how low I got.

1406
01:07:03,918 --> 01:07:06,501
It was horrible.

1407
01:07:06,585 --> 01:07:09,168
-To go from performing
in front of

1408
01:07:09,251 --> 01:07:13,710
tens of thousands of people
on a regular basis --

1409
01:07:13,835 --> 01:07:21,043
to go from that level
to high-school gyms and worse...

1410
01:07:23,293 --> 01:07:25,710
high -- wrestling high --

1411
01:07:25,793 --> 01:07:30,626
wrestling drunk, asking
promoters to find you crack --

1412
01:07:30,751 --> 01:07:33,918
it's -- it's one of the --
the -- the worst falls

1413
01:07:34,085 --> 01:07:36,418
we've ever seen in wrestling.

1414
01:07:36,585 --> 01:07:40,043
♪

1415
01:07:40,168 --> 01:07:43,751
-I wonder what goes
through my head.

1416
01:07:43,918 --> 01:07:45,710
It's not like I-I set out
to do that.

1417
01:07:45,835 --> 01:07:49,543
I-I -- I guess what I'm really
trying to say is,

1418
01:07:49,668 --> 01:07:51,418
you know, I was sitting here
thinking, you know,

1419
01:07:51,543 --> 01:07:53,251
"Why do you just
go off like that?

1420
01:07:53,376 --> 01:07:55,626
Why do you just keep pushing
and pushing and pushing?!"

1421
01:07:55,751 --> 01:07:58,460
-It's hard to watch.

1422
01:07:58,585 --> 01:08:02,210
♪♪

1423
01:08:02,335 --> 01:08:04,501
Real hard to watch.

1424
01:08:04,585 --> 01:08:11,043
And I worry more now for my kids
about what's out there,

1425
01:08:11,168 --> 01:08:13,710
because they have a -- a --

1426
01:08:13,835 --> 01:08:17,043
a certain belief of who
their Papa Jake is.

1427
01:08:17,168 --> 01:08:19,876
That's cool.

1428
01:08:20,043 --> 01:08:23,668
That is something
you can be proud of.

1429
01:08:23,751 --> 01:08:26,210
But I know some of the stuff
that's out there,

1430
01:08:26,335 --> 01:08:27,376
and it won't go away.

1431
01:08:27,501 --> 01:08:28,960
[ Sniffles ]

1432
01:08:29,085 --> 01:08:31,876
-Well, guess what.
That's what I do for you.

1433
01:08:32,001 --> 01:08:33,543
Somebody said, "Kick your ass."

1434
01:08:33,710 --> 01:08:35,876
In about three or four
or five minutes,

1435
01:08:35,960 --> 01:08:37,751
I'm gonna dump my s--- on you.

1436
01:08:37,876 --> 01:08:40,043
And I feel sorry for you.

1437
01:08:40,168 --> 01:08:45,001
So, Buzz, look at them,
because you know what?

1438
01:08:45,126 --> 01:08:47,793
I got something for you
right here.

1439
01:08:47,918 --> 01:08:49,626
Bite me.

1440
01:08:49,751 --> 01:08:53,376
-For years, everyone expected
that that was gonna be

1441
01:08:53,501 --> 01:08:59,668
the next, you know, In Memoriam,
on, you know, on WWE.

1442
01:08:59,751 --> 01:09:05,543
You know, and -- and, I mean,
I-I thought so, too,

1443
01:09:05,668 --> 01:09:09,126
that it's just a matter of --
just a matter of time.

1444
01:09:09,251 --> 01:09:12,626
[ Crowd chanting ]
-But...

1445
01:09:12,751 --> 01:09:17,168
You're not giving me
the same respect, man.

1446
01:09:17,251 --> 01:09:19,918
Shut the "F" up.

1447
01:09:20,043 --> 01:09:23,543
[ Crowd shouting ]

1448
01:09:23,668 --> 01:09:25,001
-[ Sighs ]

1449
01:09:25,085 --> 01:09:28,543
♪♪

1450
01:09:28,668 --> 01:09:33,418
I've tried to commit suicide
a -- well, a handful of times.

1451
01:09:33,543 --> 01:09:39,001
♪♪

1452
01:09:39,085 --> 01:09:41,793
Took like a hundred Valium.
[ Chuckles ]

1453
01:09:41,918 --> 01:09:43,085
That should have done it.

1454
01:09:43,210 --> 01:09:49,418
♪♪

1455
01:09:49,585 --> 01:09:51,626
But the next morning, I woke up,
I had puked all over myself.

1456
01:09:51,751 --> 01:09:53,960
I guess that's what
saved my life.

1457
01:09:54,085 --> 01:10:00,043
♪♪

1458
01:10:00,168 --> 01:10:04,543
The really ugly times
were with cocaine...

1459
01:10:04,668 --> 01:10:06,376
begging to die...

1460
01:10:06,501 --> 01:10:12,085
♪

1461
01:10:12,251 --> 01:10:14,710
...just continually
hitting that pipe.

1462
01:10:14,835 --> 01:10:17,585
It would get so hot
that I'd burn my lips.

1463
01:10:17,751 --> 01:10:22,376
♪

1464
01:10:22,501 --> 01:10:24,168
I'd hit the pipe
and curse the devil,

1465
01:10:24,293 --> 01:10:25,293
hit the pipe and curse God,
hit the pipe --

1466
01:10:25,418 --> 01:10:28,501
[ Chuckles ] Jesus.

1467
01:10:30,835 --> 01:10:33,876
Thank you, sweet Jesus,
for not letting me die.

1468
01:10:34,043 --> 01:10:40,210
♪

1469
01:10:40,376 --> 01:10:41,710
-[ Voice breaking ] For my dad,

1470
01:10:41,835 --> 01:10:47,543
I worry that he can't break
very many more times, right?

1471
01:10:47,668 --> 01:10:53,126
How -- How many times could he
break and put himself together?

1472
01:10:53,251 --> 01:10:54,835
It's like the nine lives.

1473
01:10:54,918 --> 01:10:58,543
You -- Certainly you've got
to run out at some point.

1474
01:10:58,626 --> 01:11:02,376
♪♪

1475
01:11:02,460 --> 01:11:04,418
-You know, after a while,

1476
01:11:04,543 --> 01:11:06,543
you -- you get so freaking good
at letting people down

1477
01:11:06,668 --> 01:11:11,043
that it just doesn't feel
natural doing anything else.

1478
01:11:11,210 --> 01:11:12,918
♪

1479
01:11:17,543 --> 01:11:18,710
-You have to get down so low

1480
01:11:18,876 --> 01:11:24,876
that you're willing
to do anything to get clean.

1481
01:11:25,043 --> 01:11:28,001
[ Sighs ] You don't think
I wouldn't cut off an arm to...

1482
01:11:28,085 --> 01:11:31,126
♪♪

1483
01:11:31,251 --> 01:11:33,710
...roll back the time

1484
01:11:33,835 --> 01:11:36,210
to where I didn't walk away
from my family?

1485
01:11:36,293 --> 01:11:40,085
[ Sighs ]

1486
01:11:40,210 --> 01:11:41,876
I'd cut off both legs, man,

1487
01:11:41,960 --> 01:11:45,918
if I could have a relationship
with some of my kids.

1488
01:11:46,043 --> 01:11:50,168
And I hate myself more
than they could ever hate me

1489
01:11:50,293 --> 01:11:51,668
for that failure.

1490
01:11:51,751 --> 01:11:59,001
♪♪

1491
01:11:59,126 --> 01:12:02,376
[ Sighs ] F---.

1492
01:12:02,543 --> 01:12:04,960
[ Sighs ] Alright,
I need to stop for a little.

1493
01:12:05,085 --> 01:12:08,960
♪

1494
01:12:09,085 --> 01:12:12,960
[ Sighing ]

1495
01:12:13,085 --> 01:12:16,210
♪♪

1496
01:12:16,335 --> 01:12:18,918
-Jake's my brother.
He's my mentor.

1497
01:12:19,085 --> 01:12:21,751
He's probably one of
the top-three closest people

1498
01:12:21,876 --> 01:12:23,376
in the world to me.

1499
01:12:23,501 --> 01:12:27,918
He finally understood, like,
when you get high,

1500
01:12:28,085 --> 01:12:30,376
you are not a good person, man.

1501
01:12:30,543 --> 01:12:32,793
Like, you don't want
to be around you.

1502
01:12:32,918 --> 01:12:36,001
Straight Jake would never want
to be around high Jake, ever.

1503
01:12:36,085 --> 01:12:40,585
♪♪

1504
01:12:40,751 --> 01:12:44,251
-I'm gonna go over to DDP's
house -- Diamond Dallas Page.

1505
01:12:44,418 --> 01:12:47,793
And, um, this is where
I got sober at.

1506
01:12:47,918 --> 01:12:51,710
For 2 1/2 years,
I worked on getting sober,

1507
01:12:51,876 --> 01:12:55,210
and they turned it into
a -- a movie or a documentary,

1508
01:12:55,335 --> 01:12:57,043
whatever you want to call it.

1509
01:12:57,126 --> 01:13:03,751
And it's beyond belief
how many people have came to me

1510
01:13:03,876 --> 01:13:07,210
and thanked me
for doing the movie

1511
01:13:07,293 --> 01:13:09,668
"The Resurrection
of Jake Roberts."

1512
01:13:12,168 --> 01:13:13,335
-When we started filming him

1513
01:13:13,460 --> 01:13:15,460
down there
in Gainesville, Texas,

1514
01:13:15,585 --> 01:13:17,751
he literally had gone to rehab
a month before,

1515
01:13:17,876 --> 01:13:20,418
but he went right back --
coke and crack,

1516
01:13:20,543 --> 01:13:24,710
and, you know, went right back
drinking and pills and...

1517
01:13:24,835 --> 01:13:32,876
♪

1518
01:13:32,960 --> 01:13:35,543
-Recently, been talking to Jake
quite a bit.

1519
01:13:35,626 --> 01:13:37,835
I've known him
for quite a number of years.

1520
01:13:37,960 --> 01:13:39,460
He's hit on
some really hard times.

1521
01:13:39,585 --> 01:13:41,918
His body's really beat-up.

1522
01:13:42,085 --> 01:13:46,876
-Yeah, a little over a year ago,
I retired officially.

1523
01:13:47,043 --> 01:13:49,501
The only passion I had
was wrestling.

1524
01:13:49,585 --> 01:13:51,126
Had to give it up.

1525
01:13:51,251 --> 01:13:54,960
I had a life, but I poisoned it.

1526
01:13:55,085 --> 01:13:56,960
-Come up on your knees.
I'm gonna show you something.

1527
01:13:57,085 --> 01:14:00,543
-[ Grunting ]
-You've not used your toes.

1528
01:14:00,668 --> 01:14:02,710
Like, Jake, you're like
a year or two away

1529
01:14:02,835 --> 01:14:04,751
from not being able to walk.

1530
01:14:04,918 --> 01:14:10,210
-I know this is
my last...shot in life.

1531
01:14:10,376 --> 01:14:12,960
♪

1532
01:14:13,085 --> 01:14:15,001
I hated myself.

1533
01:14:15,126 --> 01:14:16,376
Truly hated myself.

1534
01:14:16,501 --> 01:14:17,793
I took the mirrors
down in my house

1535
01:14:17,918 --> 01:14:18,960
'cause I couldn't stand
to look at me.

1536
01:14:19,085 --> 01:14:22,710
♪

1537
01:14:22,876 --> 01:14:24,626
-I'm right here, okay?
-Yeah.

1538
01:14:24,751 --> 01:14:27,751
-Now, try bending this knee
to get down to that.

1539
01:14:27,876 --> 01:14:31,168
I'm right here, I'm right here,
I'm right here, I'm right here.

1540
01:14:31,251 --> 01:14:34,210
-That's it, here!
Oh, foot!

1541
01:14:34,293 --> 01:14:38,626
-I think DDP Yoga is probably
what saved my life,

1542
01:14:38,751 --> 01:14:40,543
because I couldn't get around
anymore.

1543
01:14:40,668 --> 01:14:42,168
I couldn't get up.
I couldn't get down.

1544
01:14:42,251 --> 01:14:46,085
♪♪

1545
01:14:46,251 --> 01:14:51,751
-Once he really stayed sober
and the fog lifted,

1546
01:14:51,918 --> 01:14:55,751
now your brain starts
to heal itself, and you get --

1547
01:14:55,876 --> 01:14:58,001
like, you get sharper again.

1548
01:14:58,126 --> 01:15:01,418
Like, you could talk to Jake
about anything today.

1549
01:15:01,543 --> 01:15:04,751
Back then, not so much.

1550
01:15:04,876 --> 01:15:06,126
-I feel like I'm suffocating.

1551
01:15:06,251 --> 01:15:08,835
I actually want to drink.

1552
01:15:08,960 --> 01:15:10,835
Uh, uh, I don't want to use,
G--damn it.

1553
01:15:10,960 --> 01:15:12,918
And right now,
I'm -- I'm -- I'm --

1554
01:15:13,043 --> 01:15:17,710
I'm out here pacing,
'cause I don't want to do it.

1555
01:15:17,835 --> 01:15:20,126
-You know, even though I'd fall,
you know,

1556
01:15:20,251 --> 01:15:23,293
I'd go for two or three months
and be really good

1557
01:15:23,418 --> 01:15:26,085
and then -- boom --
I'd screw up again.

1558
01:15:26,251 --> 01:15:28,210
-Four...beers today, brother.

1559
01:15:28,376 --> 01:15:30,585
I had...oysters.
[ Laughs ]

1560
01:15:30,751 --> 01:15:32,335
-Please, please,
sell that to someone else.

1561
01:15:32,418 --> 01:15:34,043
-Really, really?

1562
01:15:34,168 --> 01:15:36,376
-And it was heartbreaking to me
to go through that,

1563
01:15:36,543 --> 01:15:38,210
'cause I so badly --

1564
01:15:38,335 --> 01:15:41,501
so badly I wanted sobriety
and wasn't able to get it.

1565
01:15:41,626 --> 01:15:45,210
But by doing it
and letting the people see it,

1566
01:15:45,335 --> 01:15:47,251
it gave them the courage to try.

1567
01:15:47,418 --> 01:15:54,960
-10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

1568
01:15:55,085 --> 01:15:58,376
-Maybe it was --
was that someone reached out

1569
01:15:58,460 --> 01:16:04,876
and -- and cared enough to say,
"Hey, there's worth in you."

1570
01:16:05,043 --> 01:16:07,126
-[ Chuckles ]
-Maybe he didn't realize

1571
01:16:07,251 --> 01:16:08,876
for a long time how many people

1572
01:16:09,001 --> 01:16:12,376
were -- were rooting for him
all along.

1573
01:16:12,543 --> 01:16:14,001
-"Bye-bye, Papa Jake."

1574
01:16:14,085 --> 01:16:16,210
-Bye-bye, Papa Jake.
-Bye-bye, Papa Jake.

1575
01:16:16,335 --> 01:16:19,043
-Daddy always --
-"Love you."

1576
01:16:19,168 --> 01:16:20,376
-Love you.

1577
01:16:20,543 --> 01:16:22,710
-[ Sighs ] Bust my --

1578
01:16:22,835 --> 01:16:25,210
-During his deepest struggles,

1579
01:16:25,293 --> 01:16:28,501
we couldn't have ever
reached him to the degree

1580
01:16:28,626 --> 01:16:32,376
that -- that Dallas was able to.

1581
01:16:32,460 --> 01:16:36,835
I don't think my dad would
be alive if it wasn't for him.

1582
01:16:36,960 --> 01:16:41,793
-Jake Roberts today
is exactly who he wants to be,

1583
01:16:41,918 --> 01:16:46,626
and that's a good person
who cares, loves his family,

1584
01:16:46,751 --> 01:16:49,043
and wants to help other people.

1585
01:16:49,210 --> 01:16:50,501
That's powerful.

1586
01:16:50,585 --> 01:16:53,210
♪♪

1587
01:16:53,376 --> 01:16:54,835
-Don't give up. Don't give up.

1588
01:16:54,960 --> 01:16:57,543
That's the thing.
Don't ever give up.

1589
01:16:57,710 --> 01:17:00,751
You may fall and bust your butt
and screw up,

1590
01:17:00,918 --> 01:17:04,543
but dust yourself off,
get back up, and go at it again.

1591
01:17:04,626 --> 01:17:06,251
And that's what I've done.

1592
01:17:06,376 --> 01:17:08,710
[ Cheers and applause ]

1593
01:17:08,793 --> 01:17:13,585
-Our next inductee
to the Class of 2014,

1594
01:17:13,751 --> 01:17:16,043
ladies and gentlemen,

1595
01:17:16,168 --> 01:17:19,001
I proudly present
the prodigal son --

1596
01:17:19,085 --> 01:17:23,751
the one, the only
Jake "The Snake" Roberts!

1597
01:17:23,918 --> 01:17:26,210
[ Cheers and applause ]

1598
01:17:26,293 --> 01:17:32,460
♪♪

1599
01:17:32,585 --> 01:17:34,501
-I don't remember
walking to the podium,

1600
01:17:34,585 --> 01:17:36,001
'cause I'm pretty sure

1601
01:17:36,085 --> 01:17:38,376
that I was just six inches
off the ground

1602
01:17:38,501 --> 01:17:39,793
and I was just floating.

1603
01:17:39,918 --> 01:17:41,668
[ Cheers and applause ]

1604
01:17:41,751 --> 01:17:43,293
-To see him inducted
into the Hall of Fame

1605
01:17:43,418 --> 01:17:45,960
was an incredibly beautiful
full-circle moment.

1606
01:17:46,085 --> 01:17:50,876
[ Crowd chanting "You still got
it!", clapping rhythmically ]

1607
01:18:00,251 --> 01:18:02,293
-I think that that will be
his legacy,

1608
01:18:02,418 --> 01:18:05,710
is he's just a tremendous
character and storyteller.

1609
01:18:05,835 --> 01:18:07,668
-I'm proud of him.

1610
01:18:07,793 --> 01:18:10,293
And I -- And I would say
to anybody that runs into him,

1611
01:18:10,418 --> 01:18:13,043
pat him on the back,
tell him he's doing a great job,

1612
01:18:13,126 --> 01:18:14,710
'cause he is.

1613
01:18:14,793 --> 01:18:19,460
-I've got some special people
here called family.

1614
01:18:19,585 --> 01:18:20,751
[ Cheers and applause ]

1615
01:18:20,918 --> 01:18:23,293
Will my girls and boys
please stand up?

1616
01:18:23,418 --> 01:18:24,751
'Cause you're my heroes.

1617
01:18:24,876 --> 01:18:28,543
[ Cheers and applause ]

1618
01:18:28,668 --> 01:18:31,543
-His grandkids only know him
as Papa Jake,

1619
01:18:31,626 --> 01:18:35,876
and he gets to see
what a blessing it is

1620
01:18:36,043 --> 01:18:37,876
to be around the kids
and the grandkids

1621
01:18:38,043 --> 01:18:40,043
and getting to see them
in these moments...

1622
01:18:40,168 --> 01:18:42,168
-Right?
-...be a part of their lives.

1623
01:18:42,293 --> 01:18:44,460
-Just to watch
and see the emotions

1624
01:18:44,585 --> 01:18:46,626
that everybody went through,

1625
01:18:46,751 --> 01:18:50,376
to see that he was making
progress on rebuilding...

1626
01:18:50,460 --> 01:18:51,751
that meant a lot.

1627
01:18:51,876 --> 01:18:54,335
[ Cheers and applause ]

1628
01:18:54,418 --> 01:18:56,335
-I love them.

1629
01:18:56,460 --> 01:18:58,793
They gave me a second chance.

1630
01:19:00,585 --> 01:19:04,376
And God bless the WWE,
because they gave me one, too.

1631
01:19:04,501 --> 01:19:05,626
Thank you very much.

1632
01:19:05,751 --> 01:19:08,793
[ Cheers and applause ]

1633
01:19:08,918 --> 01:19:12,293
[ Mid-tempo music plays ]

1634
01:19:12,418 --> 01:19:14,168
-He's a different person

1635
01:19:14,251 --> 01:19:17,043
and he wants to help
a lot of people.

1636
01:19:17,126 --> 01:19:23,293
♪♪

1637
01:19:23,418 --> 01:19:29,835
♪

1638
01:19:29,918 --> 01:19:31,835
-I'm that guy now.

1639
01:19:31,960 --> 01:19:34,710
I'm that guy that got
friggin' sober, man.

1640
01:19:34,835 --> 01:19:38,251
I'm that guy that's doing
the right thing.

1641
01:19:38,376 --> 01:19:41,460
-I guess whatever it is that --
that drives him

1642
01:19:41,585 --> 01:19:45,293
to continue to -- to live,

1643
01:19:45,418 --> 01:19:49,626
thank God,
is stronger than whatever demons

1644
01:19:49,751 --> 01:19:52,001
were trying to kill him.

1645
01:19:52,126 --> 01:19:53,835
-Now I've got 10 years
under my belt.

1646
01:19:53,960 --> 01:19:55,960
Man, I can't believe that.

1647
01:19:56,085 --> 01:19:58,960
And, uh, so grateful
that, uh, WWE

1648
01:19:59,085 --> 01:20:01,543
is wanting to put
this piece out there,

1649
01:20:01,668 --> 01:20:03,918
'cause I think this piece
is gonna help some people, too.

1650
01:20:10,001 --> 01:20:12,085
-There we go.
-Fish on, baby! Fish on, baby!

1651
01:20:12,251 --> 01:20:14,001
Ah-roo! Ah-roo!
-Oh, yeah, baby!

1652
01:20:14,085 --> 01:20:15,376
-Ah-roo!
-Dang, that is --

1653
01:20:15,501 --> 01:20:16,543
that's a good size.

1654
01:20:16,626 --> 01:20:17,710
-Catch of the day.
-Whoa!

1655
01:20:17,835 --> 01:20:19,210
-Yes, sir!
-There you go, big boy.

1656
01:20:19,376 --> 01:20:20,210
-Whoo!
That...

1657
01:20:20,376 --> 01:20:22,293
-Dang, that's a hog.
That is a hog.

1658
01:20:22,418 --> 01:20:23,876
-That's gonna be striper candy.
-How big you think it is?

1659
01:20:23,960 --> 01:20:27,043
17? 18?
-Oh!

1660
01:20:27,210 --> 01:20:29,085
-Dang, that's a good size.
-Hey, y'all can stop now.

1661
01:20:29,251 --> 01:20:30,835
♪

1662
01:20:30,918 --> 01:20:33,876
-If somebody had told me
15 years ago

1663
01:20:34,043 --> 01:20:36,168
that I would actually be
on the lake with my boys

1664
01:20:36,251 --> 01:20:40,668
and having a great day
and not chasing a crack pipe

1665
01:20:40,751 --> 01:20:44,460
or bottle of wine
or whiskey or whatever,

1666
01:20:44,585 --> 01:20:47,460
I-I'd have laughed at 'em.

1667
01:20:47,585 --> 01:20:51,460
-My siblings and I all have
different types of relationships

1668
01:20:51,585 --> 01:20:54,043
with -- with Dad,

1669
01:20:54,168 --> 01:20:59,751
and not everybody is okay
with him.

1670
01:20:59,918 --> 01:21:04,251
Not everyone thinks
he's a great guy.

1671
01:21:09,585 --> 01:21:12,501
-I've got eight children.

1672
01:21:12,626 --> 01:21:17,876
I've got four that...still
don't want much to do with me.

1673
01:21:18,001 --> 01:21:20,376
And I understand why,
because I wasn't there.

1674
01:21:20,543 --> 01:21:22,876
♪

1675
01:21:23,001 --> 01:21:25,043
And all I want to do is --
is make --

1676
01:21:25,126 --> 01:21:28,293
try to make up
for some of that lost time.

1677
01:21:28,418 --> 01:21:31,376
And I want them to know that it
wasn't them that was a problem.

1678
01:21:31,543 --> 01:21:33,335
It was me.

1679
01:21:33,418 --> 01:21:36,501
♪♪

1680
01:21:36,585 --> 01:21:40,543
-Deep down inside,
he's not a bad person at all.

1681
01:21:40,668 --> 01:21:43,293
Um...

1682
01:21:43,418 --> 01:21:44,335
And that's, uh...

1683
01:21:44,418 --> 01:21:47,501
♪♪

1684
01:21:47,585 --> 01:21:51,001
[ Sighs ]

1685
01:21:51,085 --> 01:21:53,210
[ Voice breaking ]
So it's so hard.

1686
01:21:53,293 --> 01:21:55,668
♪♪

1687
01:21:55,751 --> 01:22:02,085
'Cause I know that he never
wanted to do the things he did.

1688
01:22:02,251 --> 01:22:03,293
-And it's --
it's real life, man.

1689
01:22:03,418 --> 01:22:05,418
This -- This is not fake.
This is not TV.

1690
01:22:05,543 --> 01:22:07,960
This is not some promo
that he's cutting.

1691
01:22:08,085 --> 01:22:10,543
You know,
it -- it's -- it's things

1692
01:22:10,668 --> 01:22:13,710
that you have to work on
and build over many, many years.

1693
01:22:13,793 --> 01:22:15,376
Doesn't happen overnight.

1694
01:22:15,460 --> 01:22:18,543
♪♪

1695
01:22:18,626 --> 01:22:20,876
-He's got a lot of calluses
and a lot of scars

1696
01:22:21,043 --> 01:22:23,293
from his former life,

1697
01:22:23,418 --> 01:22:30,085
but he's a very giving
and generous person --

1698
01:22:30,210 --> 01:22:34,043
not that different
than [chuckles] most Americans.

1699
01:22:34,210 --> 01:22:35,751
Just had an addiction.

1700
01:22:35,918 --> 01:22:40,376
♪

1701
01:22:40,543 --> 01:22:42,085
-I hope he's made it
to that place

1702
01:22:42,210 --> 01:22:44,460
where he is okay with himself.

1703
01:22:44,585 --> 01:22:46,751
♪♪

1704
01:22:46,876 --> 01:22:48,585
You can't apologize anymore.

1705
01:22:48,710 --> 01:22:51,210
It's -- It's not necessary.

1706
01:22:51,293 --> 01:22:53,210
I heard in an interview
one time,

1707
01:22:53,376 --> 01:22:55,376
talking about how he took all
the mirrors out of the house,

1708
01:22:55,501 --> 01:22:56,960
or he broke the mirrors
in the house

1709
01:22:57,085 --> 01:22:58,710
'cause he couldn't
look at himself.

1710
01:22:58,835 --> 01:23:01,376
Put the mirrors back up.

1711
01:23:01,501 --> 01:23:05,043
-I look forward
to seeing the relationships

1712
01:23:05,168 --> 01:23:08,835
that he has and develops
with my siblings,

1713
01:23:08,918 --> 01:23:12,835
because this isn't the end
of his story.

1714
01:23:12,918 --> 01:23:15,876
It's just part of his story.

1715
01:23:16,001 --> 01:23:18,543
You know,
it's just one more chapter.

1716
01:23:18,668 --> 01:23:25,710
♪

1717
01:23:25,835 --> 01:23:32,793
♪

1718
01:23:32,918 --> 01:23:39,876
♪

1719
01:23:40,001 --> 01:23:41,418
My granny sat down

1720
01:23:41,585 --> 01:23:46,043
and explained
our family history to me.

1721
01:23:46,168 --> 01:23:51,751
My question to her was,
"Tell me about Dad as a kid."

1722
01:23:51,918 --> 01:23:54,585
And it was amazing.

1723
01:23:54,710 --> 01:23:58,626
He was sensitive, caring,

1724
01:23:58,751 --> 01:24:01,918
loved animals.

1725
01:24:02,085 --> 01:24:06,960
She talked about him
being this gentle,

1726
01:24:07,085 --> 01:24:11,001
tender, precocious kid.

1727
01:24:11,126 --> 01:24:16,543
And that's who you see
in that picture of Aurelian.

1728
01:24:16,626 --> 01:24:22,168
♪♪

1729
01:24:22,251 --> 01:24:25,085
-You know,
I can't put it in stone,

1730
01:24:25,210 --> 01:24:27,376
but I will tell you this --

1731
01:24:27,460 --> 01:24:30,543
That I'm gonna work
the rest of my life

1732
01:24:30,668 --> 01:24:33,293
trying to get it right

1733
01:24:33,418 --> 01:24:37,501
and helping others
that want to get it right.

1734
01:24:37,626 --> 01:24:41,376
My history
will not be my destiny.

1735
01:24:41,543 --> 01:24:47,418
My past will not look
like my future at all.

1736
01:24:49,835 --> 01:24:53,043
If you go and meet people
that you performed in front of,

1737
01:24:53,168 --> 01:24:55,293
and you see a little glimmer
in their eye,

1738
01:24:55,418 --> 01:24:57,210
because they're going back
to that moment,

1739
01:24:57,335 --> 01:24:58,751
and they're reliving it.

1740
01:24:58,918 --> 01:25:03,751
And I realize that I was
such a big part of their life,

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that there's millions
and millions of people out there

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that remember
something about Jake Roberts.

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And if you can't enjoy that,
man, you're a damn fool.

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