Kane appeared on the X-Pac 1,2,360 podcast. You can listen to the entire interview with Kane in the video above or download clips from the show here.
Fightful was passed along the following highlights.
Glen Jacobs aka Kane Talks About His Time As The Fake Diesel and Isaac Yankem
Conceptually it {Fake Diesel} sounded pretty cool, but it just didn’t take off that way and I don’t think the audience really ever got behind it but again for me it got me more experience and I was determined to make that succeed. As for the Isaac Yankem character , it didn’t succeed the way I wanted it too. It was due to me, with the fake Diesel character it was the fact that it was never meant to be. But I felt I had done my part to make it as successful as I could of made it. …
It {Isaac Yankem} came out in a time where WWE was shifting philosophies, where we were going from a purely PG product and giving into much more edgy and the Attitude Era was still a couple years away. But I was kinda the last of the over-the-top characters we had...Frankly, I never got into the character I always make the pun that I couldn't sink my teeth into it. {laughs} It wasn’t me, and I couldn’t make it work plus I was still pretty green at that point, I was still trying to figure out my way around through this whole thing. And here I was in WWE… and I am in the ring with these guys that I’ve watched on TV...you know, ‘ Oh gosh what am I supposed to do?’ And you can’t have that attitude I mean you have to have the attitude of ‘I belong here’ and I didn’t have it at that point. It was certainly not my favorite character but now they've made a wrestling action figure out of it so I have to like it. {laughs}
