hill somewhere with a little old tombstone. like man, that s too small a to tombstone, you know he ain t got nothing buried with him. they ll leave you alone. just a wooden cross. bolted down to the sides. yeah, i like that. i was hoping to actually be cremated and you guys just throw me around, around town and around the mountains wherever you go. everybody gets a little bag of ashes and you throw me everywhere. i want to be thrown everywhere. get a shot of jack daniels and sprinkle you in some jack daniels. no, no, jim beam. i hate jack daniels. you like jack daniels. not no more. i know, i know. get a shot glass of jim beam. sprinkle some ashes in it. yeah, yeah. oh, yeah. do it the right way. i ll do that for you. all right. that s all i ask. i ain t gonna drink it. i didn t ask you to drink it. it will go on the ground. go ahead.
what life is about. it s going to always be hard, always. but you capture moments and the moments are what sustains you to the next moments. yeah. so i think. but unfortunately, too many of ray s moments have been filled with nothing but pain since he broke his back. what do they say on the x-rays. that s in your back, all that metal? that s metal, all metal. two screws here, two screws here. then i ve got a fake vertebra. two screws going up through there. what s the fake vertebrae made out of? titanium. to help ray deal with all the discomfort in his back, doctors embedded a pain medication pump beneath his skin. it s a big metal disk. how thick is it? it s pretty big. oh, man. it s heavy, bro. look at that. i feel it, though. does it hurt? grab it. i don t want to hurt you, bro. you won t hurt me. grab it. grab it. it gives me the heebie-jeebies, too, bro.
you re going to have to figure something out, try to get a job even if you re banged up like a cat. i can t, roy. i m telling you. what am i going to do? rob a drug dealer? no. to get some money? no. where am i going to get the money? i don t know, bro. see? that s all i have to say. leave it there. damn it. you can either be a victim or a survivor. bad things happen to all of us. bad experiences. be a victim or a survivor. you ve got to make a choice. i m a survivor. so are you. damn right. we have to. you ve got to overcome, man. overcome or sink. don t sink. i m going to try not to. i m going to try not to. all right. damn it. but even in the gloomiest of circumstances, you can count on one thing from the slagle boys. they ll always find something to laugh about. you re going to be on boot
like i was in heaven because i could get up and do what i wanted to. being a free man wasn t the only change ronnie had to adapt to. he had entered prison as a 21-year-old bachelor but left a 32-year-old newlywed. ronnie, will you have this woman as thy wedded wife to live in matrimony so long as you both shall live? yes. we were there when ronnie married jodie. while they exchanged rings at a wedding, they had chosen a more permanent symbol of commitment prior to their nuptials. he tattooed my portrait on him, i tattooed him on my whole leg. it was like our little bond. he was released june 4th, 2009. i picked him up. it was wonderful. he was the husband any woman would dream of, you know? he pampered me, he spoiled me and then things just started to change and go down for the
worst. just ten months after ronnie s release from prison, the couple separated and then divorced a short time later. when you get with a man in prison, you got to make sure it s a very sincere thing because it s a game in there. men find women to take advantage of them. but jodie believed ronnie was not one of those men and that the love she shared with him was genuine. ronnie, however, tells a different story. no, that was a front. i loved her money. if i wouldn t have married her, the money would have stopped. is this a common thing for guys inside to marry women with money? well, i m not going to ruin it for everybody. i did it. that s why i married her. but now, jodie has found a