 Show: The Interactive Interview
courtesy of www.WrestlingEpicenter.com
Guest: Jake "The Snake" Roberts
Date: 10/31/08
Your Hosts: Patrick Kelley, James Walsh, & Nick Noel
Happy Halloween, everyone! And, on this Halloween circa 2008, we bring you
the one and only "Snake Man" as he prepares to tell you "Snake Tales", Jake
"The Snake" Roberts!
Trick or treat? It's always a treat when Jake stops by! He made his first
appearance on TII back in 2003 and almost 5 years later to the day he stops
by for a short visit to update us and promote the start of his new DVD line,
"Snake Tales" which you can get on his MySpace page!
JAKE "THE SNAKE" ROBERTS
- Last time the Snake joined TII, he was in the UK. "I'm
an American, that helps!" Jake joked back. He said he'd had enough of the
bad food and bad weather. "Three and a half years was enough."
- He had done a few things with WWE & TNA in recent years, but when asked
about what he thinks of the American Circuit, he says its better to call
it the "American Circus" because there is so much wrong with it.
- He specifically mentions that he doesn't like Hardcore wrestling and says
he didn't like The Molnster's Ball that he refereed. He says he thinks it
doesn't sell tickets, and feels that technical wrestling will always
work.
- Jake also says its hard to tell who the Good Guys and Bad Guys are today,
saying that they "Prostituted something that was pretty simple to begin with"
He feels that a sense of Right & Wrong needs to be in wrestling.
- He writes reviews of Raw, and when asked if he is doing it to get attention,
Jake says he's only doing it because he loves wrestling and if they read
what he has to say and change some things, then thats great. He does not
want a job with WWE: "I wouldn't last 15 minutes up there cause I'd strangle
somebody"
- Jake's RAW reviews can be found on his myspace page and, since the completion
of the interview, will now be posted on
www.WrestlingEpicenter.com as editorials by Jake as well.
- He says proof of the old days being better is the success of WWE 24/7.
James then brings up that the Classic Figures are more popular than the stars
today. Jake says that is because the classic figures are of characters and
not cookie cutter wrestlers.
- When talking about his WWE Pick Your Poison DVD, he said he did it to get
attention. "I'm a whore, I'm a prostitute!" Jake says he wasn't entirely
happy with his WWE DVD. Patrick says he enjoyed it and felt it had a lot
of Jake's better work on it. Jake disagrees saying while what was on there
was good, he feels his best work was with Mid South and Georgia Championship
Wrestling.
- Jake's other complaint about the WWE DVD is that he didn't get a "big enough
piece of the pie".
- He loved his feud with Ronnie Garvin. He said people went home thinking
it was a fight, and then jokes that "It was"
- He would love to train guys, but he says it takes a ton of commitment on
both the trainers and the trainees. He said that things are so messed up,
the hardest part would be erasing their minds of the wrong things, and teaching
them the right way. He says some of the guys he watches, he thinks: "Its
a shame. That kid is going to be crippled in 5 years and nobody will remember
his name."
- James then brings up Missy Hyatt's point about seeing Finishing Moves in
the early minutes. Jake specifically mentions the overuse of the DDT, but
then points out that his DDT was better because it actually finished the
match. He says the guys are destroying their own credibility.
- Going from the following, Jake says "If I hit you with 6 clotheslines and
you get back up, who looks tougher? The answer is neither of us because we
both look stupid."
- When talking about Hulk Hogan's Celebrity Championship Wrestling, Jake
immediately says "The Magic of Television" and points out all the editing
that must have been done to make the celebrities look good. He really hated
it and when asked if he feels it hurts the integrity of wrestling, Jake replies
"I think it hurts the integrity of people that watch it!"
- Jake Roberts has a new DVD out and that is discussed. Jake had said that
he wouldn't write a book but instead would do videos and this might be the
start of that. The first one, titled Snake Tales, is a collection of rib
stories that came to him that he feels the fans would find as rib busters.
He says there is some funny stuff in there and people will like hearing the
stories.
- Jake is also auctioning off a unique opportunity to take part in a shoot
interview version of Snake Tales. You can bid your way onto the panel to
ask any and all questions you have for Jake. You can bid on this on eBay
at the following URL:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Jake-the-Snake-Robe
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- Jake says he hopes Snake Tales will become the kind of DVD series that
answers all the real questions and stays away from all the stupid ones he
gets asked too often like "What was your favorite snake". Jake jokes saying
it was amazing how Damien always seemed to shrink and grow from week to week
and that snakes don't do that, there was at least 100 Damiens.
- You can pick up Snake Tales at Jake Roberts' MySpace page located at
http://www.myspace.com/officialjakeroberts.
- Lately we've been asking guests about the Chris Benoit Tragedy and the
media's handling of that. Jake says that it is disgusting how the media pounced
all over it, saying that no good came out of it. He also says that we do
not have the right to judge Benoit "Let God handle that" and says "I still
love him."
- Visit
http://www.wrestlingepicenter.com to listen to this interview as well as the over 3 hour 3 parter from
2003.
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