No
Pain
John
Picklap
28
minutes | Postproduction script
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[TEXT] This film contains
graphic images and detailed
language of abuse.
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[Heart beating]
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MAN: Wake up.
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Come on.
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Yea, come on!
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RICKY: To me, a strongman
is a sport to see
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who can take the most pain.
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[Cheering]
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Seeing how much you can
push your body through.
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Levels of pain that
I never knew existed.
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There was something
addictive about it.
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WOMAN: Go, Ricky!
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RICKY: I always put it
in terms of music.
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MAN: Come on, Ricky!
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RICKY: The deeper I could push,
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there's a new note of music
that I've never heard before.
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And I feel like I'm able
to take myself to somewhere,
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where a lot of people
haven't been to.
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And so, they've never been able to hear those songs.
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[TEXT] 2018
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[TEXT] San Francisco
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[TEXT] 3:30 AM
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[TEXT] RICKY LAROCCA
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JEN: Do you want me
to make some coffee?
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RICKY: Please.
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[TEXT] JEN, RICKY’S WIFE
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RICKY: Sit, scrunch.
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To the line, to the line,
to the line, to the line.
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Done!
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Push for it, push for it,
push for it, push for it.
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Through the fucking line. Through the fucking line.
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Yeah.
Good shit.
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Head up.
Head up, Anna.
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RICKY: Well, life was
tough when I got out.
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Push down,
push through the line.
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Push forward.
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I came home on
high-control parole.
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'Cause I was a violent felon.
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Strongman was an outlet
for me to release my anger.
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My pain.
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RICKY: This is
Ricky LaRocca.
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You're watching Strongman
on TSN, and RDS.
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[TEXT] In 2011, Ricky competes to qualify for the World’s Strongest Man.
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RICKY: The first event
was a frame carry.
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OFFICIAL: On my sound.
Ready...
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RICKY: I heard
the footsteps of the guy
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I was going up
against behind me.
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As I went to speed it up,
the frame twisted a little bit.
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As it twisted,
I felt my knee pop.
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But I didn't really
have time to think about it,
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so I picked it back up.
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ANNOUNCER: Go, go, go, Ricky!
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RICKY: Placed pretty good
on that event.
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But I knew
something was wrong.
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ANNOUNCER 1: Ricky LaRocca.
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ANNOUNCER 2: I hope
he stays tight on is.
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He's gotta watch
his technique here.
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ANNOUNCER: Yeah.
Just watch out there, Ricky.
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Let's see if his technique
improves on this one.
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Enthusiasm is great --
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[Screaming]
ANNOUNCER 1: Oh, oh no.
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RICKY: Help me!
Help me!
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RICKY: It really felt like
somebody had ripped
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me apart from my legs.
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[Ricky screaming]
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ANNOUNCER 2: They moved
very badly.
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RICKY: I could feel everything
tear apart inside.
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I could feel the muscles.
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I could feel
the bones come apart.
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I could feel everything.
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And it felt like
it wouldn't stop.
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ANNOUNCER 1: That is intense pain folks.
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ANNOUNCER 2: -- For
Ricky LaRocca.
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[TEXT] Ricky snapped his patellar tendons on both knees,
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[TEXT] detached his right quad,
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[TEXT] and tore his left quad in half through the muscle belly.
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[TEXT] The ER doctor said it wasn’t possible.
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JEN: After the surgery,
he was complaining
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of some pain in his groin area.
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They said he has
a blood clot.
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It's something small.
We'll fix it.
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It's very common.
Don't be worried.
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They rushed him
to emergency surgery.
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Twelve hours later,
they checked him,
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and his leg was
completely clotted again.
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RICKY: This is my tenth day
at this mother-fucking hospital.
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Blew a lot more blood
clots in my leg.
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But I bring a mother fucking punch with it.
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Try to see the hole this time.
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I had a hole that kept growing in the back of my leg.
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TRAINER: Give your legs
a reason to hurt, bro.
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RICKY: I had fevers.
The chills.
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TRAINER: Let's go, man.
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RICKY: The doctors weren't talking just about,
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like, an injury.
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The doctors were talking about, I may not make it.
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RICKY: My father
always taught me, like,
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even when I was young,
he was always talking about,
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I should be able
to beat any man.
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Fucker.
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It may not win the fight, but I don't have permission to lose.
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That's how he raised me.
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I was forced to work out.
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We practiced
fighting every day.
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TRAINER: Easy.
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RICKY: When I was young,
my father had done
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something to somebody,
and somebody had threatened me.
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They had called my house,
they left a message
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on the answering machine.
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My dad came home, my mother
was just crying and hugging me.
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And he's like, "Man,
what the fuck's going on?"
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And she pressed play,
and the message said,
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you know, "Little Ricky
will die in three days."
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And my father
went up to my mother,
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and just smacked
the shit out of her.
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Like, just 'cause she played
it in front of me.
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And I remember crying,
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and my father
smacking me so hard.
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And was asking me,
"You gonna be a little bitch?"
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And I was like, "No."
Said, "You gonna be scared?"
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I was like, "No."
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A lot of people
have a misconception
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that they could
only push so far.
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My goal is get to 750 or 800
on the dead-lift this year.
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And get it in competition.
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I'm training hard for it.
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Now, it's just
a matter of keeping
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my prosthetic from breaking.
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And keeping myself healthy
long enough to do it.
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There's no battle you
can't win if you push.
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ANNOUNCER: Finale for
the intercontinental champion.
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Fans can't believe it.
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Tremendous action,
watch that.
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Going for the
Falcon Arrow here.
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Great counter by --
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ANNOUNCER 2: That's
very counter --
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JEN: Don't, be nice.
VANESSA: This is my dog.
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[TEXT] VANESSA & SOPHIA, RICKY’S STEPDAUGHTERS
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RICKY: He just wants
to put her in that ankle-lock.
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[TEXT] EDDIE, RICKY’S STEPSON
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He's gonna
break her ankle.
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I told you.
He got her in ankle-lock.
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JEN: Girls, it's time to eat.
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Make sure Bruno
has food before we eat.
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RICKY: Oh.
ANNOUNCER: Oh!
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What a suplex!
RICKY: Shh.
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VANESSA: When do you guys leave?
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JEN: In a couple weeks,
to go look at the colleges.
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VANESSA: You guys are flying?
JEN: Driving.
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Did you guys say grace?
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JEN: Ricky?
RICKY: No.
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JEN: Could you guys say grace? Can you turn down the TV?
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RICKY: Yep.
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JEN: Bless us, O Lord,
for these, our gifts,
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that we're about to receive
from Thy bounty," --
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one time, we were
having an argument,
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and he wouldn't yell at me.
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Like, he would not say anything to me that was mean, or --
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and I told him, I'm like,
"Why don't you say anything?"
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You know?
Trying to egg him on.
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And he says, "No.
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I'm saving it for
training tomorrow."
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TRAINER: Yep.
Yep, yep, yep.
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Get through, hold it.
JEN: Come in, Ricky.
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Six.
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Seven.
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Come on.
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RICKY: I'm pulling
around 600.
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I don't wanna
limit myself now.
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It's spinning, but it's
not getting tighter.
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The fuck?
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Come on, motherfucker.
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Did it break?
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Oh, it fucking broke.
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Oh, fuck.
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TRAINER: Well,
you got that strap thing.
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RICKY: Yeah.
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TRAINER: That'll
hold it together.
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RICKY: Fuck.
Piece of fucking shit.
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RICKY: Beat this, what the fuck are you doing, Ricky?
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Beat this shit.
Don't give up.
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Hey, what's up, brother?
This is Ricky, man.
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Hey, I'm about to get somebody to give me a ride home.
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I'm not feeling good, bro.
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I think my fucking blood
clots are growing back.
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NURSE: Okay, what's
your date of birth?
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RICKY: April 26th, 1977.
NURSE: Excellent work.
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Okay, is it uncomfortable
to have your arms up like that?
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RICKY: No, no.
It's okay.
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NURSE: Okay.
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[TEXT] Ricky’s doctors discover more blood clots.
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[TEXT] But it’s too risky to remove them.
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[TEXT] As a result, he develops pain that makes it unbearable to wear his prosthetic
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JEN: I'm sorry,
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
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Push.
Okay.
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It's okay.
Okay.
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RICKY: It was from
Friday night.
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My foot just started swelling
up like a motherfucker.
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And then, the hole on my foot started to open up again.
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That thing was,
like, completely closed,
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and it started opening up, as my foot started getting swollen.
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One more all the way.
Pull back, pull back.
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Down.
Good shit.
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Good, right to here.
Don't come back up further.
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Go right back.
Keep your ass back.
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Lean forward,
keep your ass back, hard.
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JEN: You're at 14 hours a day,
I mean, you gotta cut back to,
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like, four, five hours a day. You have to.
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It's -- you cannot go
on anymore,
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doing a 12, 14-hour day.
You cannot.
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And I know you've been fighting, I know you have.
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But you have to rest.
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RICKY: Hands on this leg.
There you go.
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And try to just let
your fucking head relax,
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just let it try
to come down.
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Two, three, four, five, six.
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My way of winning
before was, you know,
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go out there and smash,
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and fucking take
a record or something.
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But now, it's like, I'm kinda --
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I wanna be able to just live
a little bit longer.
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Three, four, five.
Family is everything to me.
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I love you good boy,
good shit today.
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How's the back feel?
Does it feel good?
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Yeah. Keep them shoulders back
like a motherfucker.
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EDDIE: Alright,
I'll see you at home.
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RICKY: Good shit today.
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Back tucked, right there.
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RICKY: I had a broken hand
from a fight at school.
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And I was sitting at the house,
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watching music videos
or some shit.
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I guess one of those progress report things came in.
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And I didn't do good at school. And so, my father came in.
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He just swung and hit me
when I was on the couch.
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And all I remember
next is somehow,
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I'm in my bedroom now,
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and I'm on my hands
and my knees.
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And I feel the punches coming, and I see his right leg go back.
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So I know I'm about to catch
that foot to the head.
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And as it's coming, I go to put my hand up to block my head,
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forgetting that I had
a broken hand there.
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It broke through my cast,
and then my head,
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and I'm going through my desk.
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I used to be in bed,
and I used to hope
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that the car would crash
on the way home.
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As night would come,
I would just hate to hear
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that door open.
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I used to just pray it
wouldn't happen that night.
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But, you know,
just being a kid,
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I guess probably
most kids are like that.
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Everybody,
we're out here.
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Yep. Yep.
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No quit.
No quit.
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All the way,
all the fucking way.
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We are not dropping.
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We do not drop
this motherfucker.
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You fight this
motherfucker out.
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You keep going.
Keep fucking going.
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Do not quit.
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Get to the end,
get to the fucking end.
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Do not put it down.
Do not put it down.
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Keep fucking going.
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Keep going,
I'm right here with you.
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Keep fucking going.
You ain't done.
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You ain't fucking done.
Good shit.
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[TEXT] BIG RICKY, RICKY’S FATHER
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BIG RICKY: God damn,
that dude's strong as hell.
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RICKY: Fuck yeah.
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He actually did heavier than
that, but we didn't record it.
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BIG RICKY: Hey, Eddie.
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Awesome. I've seen
that video, man.
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You're looking good, bro.
You're looking good, man.
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DONNA: 'Can't do that.
He's gotta learn his lesson.
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Then, my husband gets right
into little Ricky's face
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and he's got this big-old fist like this, right,
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[TEXT] DONNA, RICKY’S MOTHER
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like he's gonna punch Rick. Then, I stepped in, in front.
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Now, that's still --
I said, "Nope.
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Don't do it.
Gotta go through me first."
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And he said,
"Donna, fucking move."
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I said, "No."
You know --
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BIG RICKY: Never put a hand
on little Ricky,
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but he was that god-damn close. DONNA: If it wasn't for me.
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And then he left the house, he burned rubber
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all the way down the block,
and, you know, yeah.
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As a matter of fact,
Dad did hit you.
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He hit you in the chest,
and that's why --
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RICKY: No, he had his hands
around my throat,
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and then you grabbed
the hands off of my throat.
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That's what it was.
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You didn't hit me, he started -- he was going to hit me,
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then you started choking me, 'cause he was being a lot nicer,
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and then you grabbed --
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INTERVIEWER: Do you think
he was a good father?
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RICKY: Oh, yeah, I think
he was a great father.
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INTERVIEWER: Why?
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RICKY: 'Cause
he loved me so much.
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I think, you know, he may have not done it the right ways,
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but he wanted the best for me.
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I think he was just angry.
Angry at himself, probably.
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Oh, fuck yeah.
Good shit.
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My dad used to say, oh,
you're gonna be a monster,
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and all I wanted to do is
be a monster, and, you know,
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he made me for that.
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I would not be the strongman,
I would not be the man I was,
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I mean, really, like, he had me work like a man as a little kid.
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I mean, shit, he was there,
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and that's what
counts, right? Shit.
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Better than him just
dipping out or something.
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[TEXT] After a year of being off his leg,
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[TEXT] Ricky feels well enough to try walking again.
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DOCTOR: No, that's part
of the small shape changes.
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Yeah, that we would ideally
capture with the new cast.
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Does the back feel better?
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RICKY: Oh, it feels so much fucking better, bro.
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DOCTOR: Okay.
RICKY: I mean, yeah, way better.
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DOCTOR: Okay, yeah.
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RICKY: It's been like
a year since I've fucking
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really been on this motherfucker, or over.
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JEN: Oh my gosh.
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RICKY: I love you, too.
It's a good day.
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Look at how excited he is.
Come on, Bruno.
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You're really gonna
go for walks now, huh?
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[Whistling]
Bruno.
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Get your turtle booty
over here.
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What are you doing?
He's crazy.
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MAN: Go all-out, Rick.
Let's go.
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Fire it up now.
Come on.
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About 960 in hand.
Push, easy.
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Keep going,
Rick, keep going.
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Keep going, Rick, get five on. You don't stop.
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MAN 2: You got this.
Come on, you got it.
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Easy weight,
come on, you got it.
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You got it.
You got it.
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RICKY: Either this is gonna
kill me, I'm gonna kill it.
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One of us is gonna die.
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I don't think
it's gonna be me.
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[TEXT] Ricky is once again unable to use his prosthetic.
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[TEXT] After 10 years and more than 40 surgeries,
doctors are still unable to clearly diagnose his condition.
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[TEXT] He still wants to set the deadlift record.