I Am Paul Walker

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The reason why we all

were devastated about Paul Walker

is because he's the nicest dude on human feet.

Make a wish.

Paul had real relationships with everybody.

You felt his love.

You felt his spirit. You felt his energy.

You felt the morale,

the camaraderie, the inclusion.

Birthday boy, look this way.

Paul, look this way.

Look at Daddy.

He was somebody that cared,

and he was somebody that really was experiencing life,

and on the daily

trying to experience it to the fullest.

"Never back down" mindset, you know?

Go big or go home.

He was just a kid from Sunland-Tujunga,

you know, the gun-toting hippie, balance of opposites, you know?

A lover and a fighter.

He got in a lot of fights when he was younger.

He didn't lose very many fights.

He would have been a great fireman.

He likes to grind.

He's not afraid to get dirty,

talks a lot of trash.

He just fits in.

I just thought

he was the coolest guy in the world,

and it had nothing to do with the movies, nothing.

Here's a guy

who's getting phone calls left and right from creditors,

and right in the middle of that, he's like,

"Dude, I'm going to be a dad."

Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for Paul Walker.

Aw, dude, ladies flip out.

When you meet this dude,

you felt like he jumped out of a magazine.

You know what I mean?

It was like, that's who he was.

The cinema didn't capture it all,

couldn't capture it all.

Paul was always an actor

who had one foot in and one foot out.

He would just disappear.

When Paul wasn't making movies,

he wasn't in L.A. He wasn't even in the country.

He would be, like, in the Amazon,

or he'd be, like, diving with sharks.

Hey, we got him hooked good!

Each time he appeared

in a Shark Week episode,

he donated to my non-profit.

He didn't even tell me.

He did take care of people,

to the point where he wasn't looking after himself.

He'd pretty much made a decision

that he was going to back away from Hollywood.

He was like, "Time?

I don't have time. I don't get time." You know?

"I got money.

I don't got time."

New fuels,

new devices to get the most out of engines,

and new thrills.

My dad set records in Bonneville.

Our family car

was a car that he raced when I was growing up,

and Paul wanted to hear all of these stories.

Yay!

He loved it.

Paul used to go visit my dad

and just want to be with him in the shop,

and my dad was not a talker, but he would talk to Paul.

He became a gearhead because of my dad.

- Wow. - Yeah.

My brother had big shoes to fill.

My brother was actually the fourth Paul Walker.

My grandpa was actually the second Paul Walker.

He came from a line of just, like, bad-asses.

My dad's totally a guy's guy,

tough guy, you know, military guy.

Shooters ready.

Go get the arrows.

What are you doing, Paul?

You going to blow some bubbles up?

Yeah.

Whee!

Yay!

Okay, swim to the side.

He was always sweet, always kind, always nice,

the most loving person I've ever met in my life.

I mean, like, if he cared about you, you knew it.

L.A. is a big place,

and Paul grew up in Sunland-Tujunga,

which is definitely

just an ordinary, common street with homes,

and very much of a blue-collar place

to grow up and raise a family.

There's cool dude.

This was Paul and I.

We'd just get outside.

Whatever it was,

let's just get outside and do something.

Just fun memories of just doing things outside,

all the time.

I have to say, it didn't surprise me

that he became so successful in acting.

That's Toby next door.

I'm not supposed to feed him.

Whenever I feed my puppy this new puppy food,

Toby goes crazy.

He would try out different voices...

Sorry, Toby.

...and characters,

and really took a lot of pleasure

in tormenting me with some of these characters.

Paul, in your opinion,

which of the two of you

looks better onstage today,

you or your sister?

This is serious?

Yeah, it's serious. Right here.

Myself.

He always had

that, like, ability to tell a story,

and of course he had the looks.

He must have landed or got a callback

on, like, 80% of the calls he'd go on.

One of the people that really showed a lot of faith in Paul

was Michael Landon.

Look, I'm a stranger around here.

You kids know the Drake plant?

My mother's Mr. Drake's assistant.

She knows that place inside-out.

Rita Travers.

He cast Paul as one part,

I think it had to do

with the ocean and fishes and stuff,

and then there was another one

they needed a kid to play in the Special Olympics.

Todd...

where do you live?

A-at... at the group foster care home...

...with Mrs. Burke.

I was surprised at how good it was,

even though I was there watching it being filmed,

because he had this innate ability to just feel.

I'm your brother.

M-my... my brother?

Yeah.

My brother!

My... my brother!

Wild man.

When Cody came into the family,

he was a surprise to my parents,

and so obviously a surprise to all of us,

but Paul was almost 15.

Cody, Cody.

I remember always a really sweet,

really tender relationship between the two of them.

Because of that age gap,

Paul wasn't just like a big brother to me.

He was another father figure to me.

If we were going on vacation

or, you know, for spring break or whatever,

we knew where we were already going.

We were going to Carpinteria State Beach,

which is just south of Santa Barbara.

We'd get a camp site, tents for the kids.

Every night we were roasting marshmallows and s'mores

and doing the whole campfire thing.

That was the Walker family vacation.

Carpinteria was...

That's where we went for everything.

I would wake up early in the morning

when it was going to be minus tide at daylight,

and I would get the kids up,

and we would go out to the tide pools.

Paul was just fascinated by all of that,

and that's where his heart always went after that.

We had a motor home,

but the boys always popped up their tents,

and there's a...

Paul is sitting in the opening of the tent,

he's eating, like, a bowl of cereal.

- Is it good, Paul? - Mm-hmm.

And his little brother, Cody, came over

and just put his arms around him and gave him a hug.

Aw, now he's giving him a hug.

You don't forget stuff like that.

Say hello, Paul.

Hello, Paul.

- Hello, Paul. - Hi.

Move out of the way, Brent!

Don't look at me.

He's camera shy.