Joe Rogan Experience Review podcast - A review of Episode 1205 Jake the Snake

Episode Date: November 28, 2018

Jake the Snake is a legend of a wrestler and one of my favorites growing up. He talks to Joe about all of his addictions and troubles then his road back to health with DDP yoga keeping him strong. Such a great conversation. Check out his new documentary called “The Resurrection of Jake the Snake”   Enjoy my review folks!   Please email me with any suggestions and questions for future shows :   [e-mail]

Hello and welcome to another episode of the JRE Review where I review Joe Rogan podcast weekly Sometimes I've guess on people that are big fans or been inspired by Joe Rogan and we talk about what's going on? no affiliation with Joe show, but I am a big fan. I've listened to probably everyone at his podcast and you know, I always end with questions or more comments and I like to keep that dialogue going and that's why I do this podcast so this week was a fantastic podcast with Jake the Snake Roberts podcast

1205 if you're a wrestling fan or even if you're not and you want to hear about somebody that you know definitely if you grew up in the 80s, you know, we are just a fascinating guy. A guy that's had some terrible drug issues and over the last few years has really struggled to kind of work through his aging and retiring and his addictions. And then he gets a call from an old friend of his Diamond Dallas page, DDP, who does DDP Yoga, who was on Rogan's podcast recently and says, hey look, come live with me. Let's work together, get you off the drugs, we do some yoga, we get your body moving, and some really incredible things happen.

What's amazing is that there's a documentary that was made called Resurrection, the documentary is called the Resurrection Object, the documentary is called Resurrection Object Disnake. And you can get that. I believe I watched it on Google Play Store for like four bucks. It's really good.

Whether you're a wrestling fan or you just want to see a really inspirational story, it's truly amazing. I'll talk a little bit more about that later. But Jake gets into it with Joe. Starts talking about his joke issues. He talks about how Dallas obviously gave him a call, really saved his life, offered to pay all his bills for the time that he lived there, which was an amazing opportunity. Then he talks about his past a little bit, like what kind of set off these addictions and other things in

his life that have been very difficult in the deal with his father was also a wrestler but his father abused him him and his sister and and then later he he spoke briefly about how his sister I think he said that his sister was kidnapped and then killed. So it's just a lot of pain in his family that he's been trying to deal with. And he was estranged from his children, his two boys and his daughter. It wasn't very close to them. Felt like a loser. Just wanted his dad's approval.

So the whole time he was Jake the snake, he was doing tons of drugs. Like tons of drugs. Lot of cocaine, tons of drugs. Like tons of drugs. A lot of cocaine, a lot of drinking. He just, that was it. He just, he just went at it. Jake the Snake obviously was the wrestler from the 80s. They had the snakes.

He had different snakes, pythons, and cobras. So he's always dragging those around. He was telling stories about how much work it was to drag them around. And it kind of alluded to the idea because Joe obviously brought up, do you guys do steroids? Where do you get it from? What happened? And he said that he would carry everybody else's through customs.

And in so doing would take like 10% of that stack. So he put it in with the snake bag in the snake box, which is a genius idea, really, when you think about it. He was a bad guy in wrestling. He was set up that way, but everybody really respected him. He was a diamond dollars page, his mentor, almost everyone looked up to Jake.

He had a really incredible presence on camera. He didn't shout in the same way that Ogan does. He would kind of whisper like at, but at an intense level. And it would really make you focus and it just kind of changed the dynamic of the in-between in between voughts, you know, when things were just said to each other, which made him, you know, pretty fantastic. Jake and Joe talked a little bit about Vince McMahon and how Vince managed to kind of unify all the wrestling. So basically what would happen is all different regions across the US, the TV rights for what was to be put on as the wrestling was owned by different people. And Vince McMahon basically went around and just bought up each one of them. He was like, listen, I'm taking this and this is what I give you. And that's how he was able

to just kind of like conglomerate it all into the WWF, which eventually became the WWE, because I think the World Wildlife Federation, the people of the Panda, they sued him, took that name back. But when they were talking about Vince, I mean Vince is a billionaire, and he's 70, and he's Jacked. I think he was on Men's Health or GQ recently, they were saying, and he was just absolutely Jacked. Good for him, you know? I mean my

grandpa didn't look like that so maybe the grandpa's of the future just gonna be massive. Get on it. It's got to be better than complaining about your bad back all the time. Tony Hintcliffe obviously was on this podcast, massive wrestling fan, hilarious to you as well. So it was great to have him on and have his commentary and his stories. He started talking about how David Arquette is wrestling now. That I found pretty hilarious. I don't follow wrestling now, so I didn't know this, but I think that that is kind of hilarious. But also cool that he's like, I don't know, making that kind of a change and give it in a shot. You know, it's brave of him. He could have been a laughing stock, but he's got Jacked.

And he's wrestling now. So there we go, David R. Kett, God bless him. Maybe he can't get movie roles, who knows. One time Jake told a story, he was telling a story that one time when he was at Dallas's house. He'd like, I think he was drinking and with some girl sleeping with them and forgot the snake lost it. And the snake got loose and for days they didn't know where it was and they had cats and they were worried about them dying. And in the end I think they had to, because it was a cobra, so you don't want that just to slid her around. They had to get out of the house super mad at Jake so they kicked him out and ended up having an oxen walls down to get the snake out. So yeah owning snakes is a dangerous prospect unless you keep them in cages obviously. unless you keep them in cages, obviously.

And then they talked more about how Jake was a bad guy in wrestling, but like a really good person, when it came to just his friendship and how he helped other wrestlers and really well they meant, even though he had his demons, obviously. And for me, it's when I watched his documentary last night, which is fantastic, you've got to check it out, it's so good. It was crazy to see such a strong character being so emotional, you know, in a way.

Like, I remember him as a kid and I'm like, this guy's invincible. Like nothing would ever break him down. But then when you see the documentary and the pain that he's been in and how upset he is over his addictions, I mean, it just, it really brings this humanizing character to it. And it's important to see, you know, while he was doing his rehab as well, he heard his shoulder, so he was doing some yoga, he heard his shoulder really badly. And I think the surgery was like 7, 8,000, so they started to go fun me page Maybe it was nine thousand, but they started to go fun me page dallas did and I don't even know if Jake the snake knew what The go-fong me page was but in just 24 hours they'd raise like seven grand and I think of that

Along with all the other healing and sobriety he was doing that really pumped Jake the snake up because you realize what he means to the fans and what he is for wrestling and you know when he got the surgery really just started pushing himself, getting himself so much stronger was absolutely awesome. And you know his goal was to get back on, his ball was to get back on, wrestling, you know, to do like a Royal Rumble or something like that, but he did make it back on the Royal to show up there, which was awesome because it was a huge surprise for everyone. Nobody knew that he was going to be there. And then he got to in 2014 got inducted into the wrestling hall of fame so to come back from these awful addictions to really struggle like

that and somehow just put it all together to get these things and now he's connected with his kids and it's just such a great story. Having Monrogan and get to talk about this, seeing really turn his life around, it's just beautiful. It really is. It's a great podcast, a fantastic conversation. You got to check it out. But that's it for this one. Thank you guys so much for listening and peace. Thank you.