Joe Rogan - Jake "The Snake" Roberts on the Fans Who Almost Killed Him

Was that hard to always be a great bad guy or did you sort of relish in that? Yeah, yeah. Being a good guy is so boring. Right. Because people expect you to be nice, they expect you to do this, you can get a picture with the baby. But as a bad guy, you can do anything and it's okay. You know, I mean, and then you get to see how far you can take people. You know, I mean, some people freak, it's kind of bugs people, freaks them out a little bit thinking about starting a riot. But that's when you know you've done your job right. When you can get people to step out of their comfort zone and come into the ring after you. Now you've done the job. Did you have that happen all the time? Oh yeah. How many times? Oh probably 30, 40 times. 30, 40 times people charge the ring. Yeah, I got to get you. Well, it got bad a couple of times. One time the worst one being in Dallas, Texas, which is like 60 miles from my hometown. What started it? I was wrestling Sting. The guy stood up about nine rows back, reached inside of his jacket, pulled out a nine millimeter and got three shots off before they got him. Oh, I'd already dived underneath the ring. Sting being the baby face. He's so stupid. Yeah. He's in the ring. Whoo. You know, fuck you Sting. I'm not coming back, bitch. You know, this guy got three shells off at me. I remember going to the back thinking to myself, Jake, you fucking got him right there. You take him that far. You're making people do shit they would not normally do because they get him off. They got him. But here's what they brought him to the back and they're like, Jake, do you want to press charges? I'm like, press charges? No, just reload the motherfucker and put him back out there. What the fuck do you think press charges? Of course I want to press charges, man. He put three holes in the building of the old fucking sportatorium there in Dallas, man. Was he shooting at you or was he just shooting at the ceiling? At me. Yeah. He hated my ass. I had a woman, 75 years old, cut me with a box cutter. What? Yeah. Yeah. The first time she'd ever been to watch wrestling. What? What did you do to start that? She had been at home with her grandkids and they were watching me wrestle. And they were like, oh, granny, look at so and so Jake Roberts. He's oh, he's so bad. If somebody needs to wash his damn mouth out, open spank his ass is what that man needs. You know, somebody should have straightened him out earlier in his life and they're like, oh, granny, shut up. You wouldn't have done anything. You'd run from him to I would not run from that man. And they basically challenged the grandmother not knowing it. She's a little off. Next time I come to town, she gets fucking ticket. She's going to show those grandkids. She's not afraid of me. Oh, Jesus Christ. I came down the aisle. I got security around me and all of a sudden my security is going. This is fucking great. I turned to see what they're doing. There's this old woman that's down and they're all over. I'm thinking, what's she have a fucking heart attack, man? What's going on? Hey, guys, what's going? Jake, she fucking cut you, man. I'm like, oh, you're full of shit. Look at your arm. Holy shit. I'm gonna fucking kick that bitch right in the face, man. I went down and tried to cross face her. How bad did she cut you? About 30 stitches. Jesus Christ. Box cutter. You just didn't realize it. You don't feel it, the box cutter. You're so sharp. So I get to the back with her and I hear the story. You know, what actually happened. And I just looked at her and I was like, can I hug you? You want to hug me? I'm like, yeah, I do. Yeah, I do. Come here. And I hugged her and I started crying. She started crying. Whoa. Jesus Christ. Was that wife number two or three? I would have taken her. That's why it only lasted four months. She died. She ran out of blades. Yeah, there you go. There you go. What the fuck, man? Well, you're a better man than me. Well, you did kick her, though. I did kick her. It was a good solid kick. Nice. Fucking false teeth jiggle tooth. Ah. Jesus Christ.