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Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story

It was a wayfor him to communicate because his body is paralyzed,but his mind is fine

It was a way
for him to communicate because his body is paralyzed,
but his mind is fine

Full Transcript

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It was a way for him to communicate
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because his body is paralyzed, but his mind is fine.
Duration
7 seconds
Views
20
Timestamp in Movie
01:10:22
Uploaded
May 11, 2025
Genres
documentary, sport
Production
Red Bull Media House,HBO Sports

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Movie Summary

An irreverent entrepreneur overcomes a series of adversities to create a new sport- and unexpectedly launches a global cultural phenomenon: snowboarding.
- The low point was talking to my kids about suicide. - Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story 00:14
- The low point was talking to my kids about suicide.
"We can't tell you how long he'll be paralyzed... - Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story 00:04
"We can't tell you how long he'll be paralyze...
But we can tell you he will come out of this." - Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story 00:22
But we can tell you he will come out of this."
And once you get to that point, - Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story 00:05
And once you get to that point,
- When a friend would come visit him, - Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story 00:14
- When a friend would come visit him,
- One day he wrote, "Okay, now I wanna live." - Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story 00:22
- One day he wrote, "Okay, now I wanna live."
Scribblin' on notes, and they were pretty hard to make out. - Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story 00:09
Scribblin' on notes, and they were pretty hard to make ...
- He wrote, "Doesn't make want good." - Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story 00:12
- He wrote, "Doesn't make want good."
And I'm leaning over his bed and I have a Burton T-shirt on. - Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story 00:05
And I'm leaning over his bed and I have a Burton T-shir...
And he had written, - Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story 00:22
And he had written,
- I needed it. I needed the support. - Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story 00:28
- I needed it. I needed the support.
Like, he was still not quite, like, all there. - Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story 00:06
Like, he was still not quite, like, all there.
We went on a little hike-- a little walk-- - Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story 00:09
We went on a little hike-- a little walk--
And I had this evil split second - Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story 00:05
And I had this evil split second
I told that story later and he was like, - Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story 00:27
I told that story later and he was like,
Burning Man was his home. - Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story 00:12
Burning Man was his home.
- Came from--we're listening to Phish, Grateful Dead, - Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story 00:06
- Came from--we're listening to Phish, Grateful Dead,
- He wanted to get 100 days every year. - Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story 00:04
- He wanted to get 100 days every year.
- I was like, "That's not that big a deal." - Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story 00:06
- I was like, "That's not that big a deal."
- There was never a moment where he was, like, down - Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story 00:05
- There was never a moment where he was, like, down