Nash is a great story teller! He's like a grandad with lots of cool stories under his sleeves fo rhis grandkids (which basically all old wrestlers are)
Think more because they or that era of human being experienced life without A.I My dad was the same way could entertain you with stories for days but couldn’t or want to talk or text on the phone cause it’s not what life is about.
I dig Kevin Nash. He seems like an honest good Dude. He tore his body up and wanted to make as much money as he could because he knew his body couldn’t take it forever.
@@anthony6929 man you're really tough "Anthony" stfu dork. dude was just having a harmless opinion and here you come with the attitude. people like you disgust me and the world would be better off without you
My wife took our daughter to the pediatrician in the 90's and came home describing "the biggest man she had ever seen." Few pics and we figured out it was K Nash. Just taking his kid to the doc too.
I am not blaming anyone, but drinking 3-4 Bottles of Beer, with Pills that Cocktail is responsible for Wrestlers over the age 35, dying, than anything else.
for me after wrestlemania x8 even though they botched the invasion in 01 and steve austin in 02 but there was still decent wrestling and tv up until wm x8 after that DEFINITELY fucking over
Nash went from riding in WCW with Austin, Pillman and Raven to riding in WWE with Michaels, Hall, Kid and HHH that's a pretty stacked lineup just for car rides...
We used to call Soma “stumble biscuits” back in high school in the 90’s. There’s a point if you take too many they make you twitch and tremble uncontrollably. I was in that state and trying to write an English paper, it was nothing but scribbles because my hand wouldn’t stop twitching. Teacher gave it back with a big red question mark over the whole page lol. Never took them again after that I don’t think.
Them Somas ain’t no joke bruh. My roommates aunt came over and took a handful of them, Benzo’s, and a glass of SoCo to wash it down with and slipped into a soma coma and never woke up again 😭
I love listening to all the stories from back in the day!! So glad I’m an early 80’s baby and got watch wrestling back when it was absolutely awesome!!!
the godfather didnt take pills, he smoked weed and compared to other wrestlers at his age, he has his wits and can still function. coincidence? i think not
tapset47 he can’t take a bump let alone wrestle godfather still can show athleticism Scott can’t... he’s one of my favorite wrestlers but gotta admit when there’s no coming back
Kevin Nash makes a very valid point and I've never thought of it like that. None of the wrestlers got a memo saying you gotta take pills or stay up all night and party. People are quick to point fingers at Vince Mcmahon but he didn't hold a gun to there heads and say shoot these steroids either...I love listening to Nash's interviews..I bet he'd be a cool guy to just sit down with a shoot the shit
And, Vince while not physically in the ring at first, lifted all the time, dieted like a maniac, and was awake almost all of the time and stressing to keep the business going. But he had no peers to apply pressure to him. Also, I'm happy to have no idea what most of the drugs he is talking about are.
If you were in a place of work, say a building site, and you were messed up yet your boss didn't fire you he would be equally to blame or at least would have to be held to account on a high level
Nash's point does have some validity, as Vince was not pressuring them, that is true. He was also the one with the carrot tied to a string. He DID have something they all want. And, I really, really question that he says he didn't know about this stuff.......
You're totally right but at the same time we're talking about the guy who had hulk lie under oath about steroid use. We're talking about a time before all the standards,testing and the wwe wellness program. Vince was fully aware of a lot of the lockeroom drug use and he turned a blind eye to it. But you're right In that Vince's willful ignorance doesn't excuse personal accountability on the part of wrestlers
@@drexlspivey5828 It depends, are you getting high before/during work and not able to do the job to a satisfactory level? Or is it a case like the Kliq? Where they were showing up to work, killing it, being top guys who were really driving the show from 93-96 but were getting messed up AFTER the show? Who cares ? Your boss isn’t gonna fire you if you are showing up to work sober and doing a good job but getting messed up in your free time. If your partying and substance use starts getting in the way of your job performance and the boss is looking the other way while you are also being a detriment to the show that’s when the boss will and should step in or share some of the blame. You can’t say HBK, Kid, Hall or Nash allowed their partying to hinder their job performance in their New Generation WWF run. Post curtain call for HBK, or the Wolfpac’s run in WCW might be a different story... they seemed to get there and not put their job first like previously Probably because they knew in WWF they would be held accountable by Vince whereas WCW might have had Eric Bischoff as its top executive, problem was he was only the top of the power structure for the wrestling not the top of Turner. The buck didn’t stop with him, & everyone knew it. WWF the buck starts and stops with Vince. Vince didn’t have the luxury of pointing up and saying “hey there’s only so much I can do, I’m an independent contractor just like you, the wrestler is” where Vince couldn’t hide behind that. If you think of it logically, there’s no logical argument that it’s Vince’s fault. He didn’t supply it, he didn’t encourage it, he tested against the street drugs, and steroids that had been rampant just a few years prior. What more could he have done? In the 80’s it was roids & coke... so he tested for that, and for the most part got it out of his company. What did the boys do? They did what you’d expect them to do, find ways around the testing, or switch from weed, coke, & roids to pain killers & muscle relaxers that they all had prescribed to them by doctors. and then in the attitude era he pulled back on the steroid testing, A) The heat from the early 90’s steroid scandal had gone away. B) WCW wasn’t testing & they were beating WWF at the time, so they almost had to either make a big deal out of WCW’s transgressions go public that WCW was allowing their guys to juice so you would then have to stay away from any WCW talent that comes available because you’ve just painted them as dirty ( then pray none of your guys pop a test so you don’t look like hypocrites) C) It was a massive cultural issue in ALL of sports and hollywood back in the 97-2007 era across all sports MLB/ NFL in particular--- so to point the finger at Vince & only Vince is absurd. D) athletes across all sports were finding all types of ways to take Performance Enhancing Drugs undetected. HGH started to really blow up. So as usual the rule breakers stayed ahead of the rule makers, and the rule makers could only react to the new ways of breaking of the rules thus forcing them to react and make newer rules ( which Vince did) E) Look at the wrestling industry today... it’s cleaner than ever, all at a time while as a country we are seeing an epidemic of overdoses & drug addiction.! F) most importantly what could or would be a benefit to Vince & his company to allow his guys, the people he’s invested money, tv time, merch and everything else that comes along with being a WWE Superstar to be walking talking drug addicted zombies? What would he gain from that? Now if you wanna say he had something to gain by allowing or encouraging his guys to be Juiced to the Gills, you could make that argument, because wrestling is a body and image driven business, I would agree. But after the heat and pressure put on him after 1991 when steroids became illegal, and he had the US Government on his ass with a federal investigation.... I just don’t see why he would risk it after that. The percentage of people who go against the US government in federal court AND WIN..... it’s under 3% 97% of federal charges end in a conviction or a guilty plea. Vince beat those charges. You don’t beat federal charges when they are gunning for you like they were to him, unless you’re innocent.!
Muscle relaxers make you feel like elastic man, and not in a fun way. Xanax I never got any recreational use out of, for me they were only good for sleep. Weed has the complete opposite effect on me than most people, meaning it does nothing for me except make my anxiety spike. I must be an anomaly.
@@2v_media BS. What the WWF did and didn't test for determined what the wrestlers took. "Big pharma" had nothing to do with it. WWF wrestlers didn't smoke weed at the time because they got tested for it. If they had tested for everything but oven cleaner and rust remover, Big Lazy would have snorted those. But hey, you shat out a buzzword without understanding the context. Congrats, have a cookie!
People in thy WWF have derided Nash for leaving. But just listening to him, I sense that Nash had a lot of PTSD from the financial woes of working, making little, being in cramped up hotels, not having much to show for it. No wonder, when offered a million dollar contract, he left, not wanting to wait for WWF to get better business.
Having worked a job on the road and sleeping in dirty motel 6’s on the floor three or four deep in the room I fully get those ptsd vibes from him. It sounds brutal, and couple that with injuries from working it’s like no wonder why they did this to themselves after hours.
Correct. It's very, very easy to talk shit. Try being on the road 300 days a year, throwing yourself at the ground for no guarantee, and not seeing your family that entire time.
In my opinion, Nash was one of those guys that truly loved the business. He dealt with the slim times on the road and he stuck with it. Most guys gave up when they got to that point, but his passion is obvious and I will always respect him for that.
I don't know Nash always seem like he was just chilling and enjoying himself. A little lazy and not the best booker but it always seemed like he was having the time of his life. Scott Hall was the one with PTSD.
People can be addicted to weed as well. People can be addicted to phones. People can be addicted to sex. Not so much the substance, more of the person.
I know exactly what Nash is talking about. I took two or three somas (not sure what mg) and drank two or three beers and felt like I was floating in heaven. It was awesome.
Shit I remember the first time I had somas. Took two with a Redd's Hard Cider; nothing. Kept taking them - woke up pissed on myself and could barely get out of the chair. Buddy said I ended up taking 12 and passed out.
I hope you’re correct because of the drug use but the truth is these guys were on every drug in the world to work through the pain of a match that’s a tenth of the workrate of today’s average match, so I fear in the future more Misawa (RIP) cases and other similar situations. If you accept that Benoit did “ it” (I’m not willing to debate that if you disagree fantastic) its a genuine debate whether he damaged himself like that from the diving headbutt or the drugs and this generation essentially is going to be the Guinea pig for that question because they’re low on the drugs and heavy on the crazy bumps. I hope you’re right though, I really do, I’m sick of hearing of my old heroes only because they’ve died. It’s actually horrible to be fans of our generation of wrestling now they’re past their prime
Also, you really think doing this video game style will last over a decade? NOPE. Freaking Ciampa is injured every 3 months, Ospreay will be crippled by 50. Especially on a WWE schedule where you work 300 days a year.
I’ve had one soma, O N E, and the shit had me out for the count. It actually shocked me how fast it came on. I was 210 lbs at the time. These guys doing handfuls of them, routinely, has my mouth agape.
@@mr.smithgnrsmith7808 i never really messed with somas like that. 30s and oxytcontin, opanas, fentynal patches....those were all my things until I moved on to heroin. Glad I dont have to live like that anymore
@Travis Shane i can't really comment on that because once I did heroin I never went back to anything else after I had any amount of clean time. But I did know I couldn't do what I was doing 3 years ago and try it again after 3 years clean because id die.
they are narcotics...but not as strong as percs. Take a soma and drink a beer or two and you get a nice buzz and it loosens you up, but you are still functional (not saying drive a car functional). Take more somas or take them and drink too much and they can fuck you up, but pop a soma or two and drink a few beers and you are chill. I mean bodyweight is a factor.
I wish Nash would hook up with Conrad and make a storytelling type podcast. Conrad one of the best at his craft, and Nash can spin a yarn like no other
@@JerOfTheDead Ya Nash def should have his own podcast, seeing how many shoots he does, I don't think Conrad would be the right choice for Nash, but he should definitely do something like that.
Conrad Thompson is universally hated by most other podcast hosts, and on 83 Weeks with Eric Bischoff, he ruins every episode with his simping and bias for AEW.
@@alaistairhamilton8838 yeah I mean I made this comment 3 years ago when he was fairly new to the wrestling podcast game. I honeslty don’t listen to him anymore
My only guess is that weed smells so the cops can tell you're on it, which would bring law enforcement's attention on the whole company, especially post-steroid scandal.
Shit if they were sober they probably would of fucked up more lol cuz of being nervous and anxious when they popped a pill they loose and worry free but what do I KNOW 😆 😆
these guys are all huge, and when you get smashed every night for years, and then start doing drugs along with it, yeah, beer doesnt do fuck all. im not a wrestler, but i know getting fucked up good and proper unfortunately. and even tho i dont even party anymore, i still have to drink like a whole fifth of liquor to get any sort of decent buzz.
Lol man I know EXACTLY what he means about the pills with a couple beers….unfortunately that led me to heroin then fentanyl smh. Happy to say I kicked it, but it’s a battle every day
20 beers before a buzz? Holy shit, I'm a lightweight who gets one after 2 or 3. Of course, a massive guy like Nash will have a bigger tolerance. Andre the Giant apparently needed even more. He holds the record for most beers consumed in one sitting.
“It takes twenty beers to get a buzz.” Man, what a tolerance. You’d need a case every time you’d like to get drunk! 2 Millers, and I’m buzzed. 3, I’m drunk.
Those Soma’s are not something anybody should mess with AT ALL!! I lived with my best friend and his family for a couple years….everyone in his family was a hardcore addict. Well his aunt came home one night and we didn’t know it, but she took a handful of Soma’s, Benzo’s and a Fifth of Southern Comfort. She’d always pass out on the couch so we thought nothing of it. Turns out she slipped into what is known as a Soma Coma…she never woke back up. She left her oldest child to raise her youngest ones. Please leave the Benzo’s and Somas ALONE!!!!
Soma epidemic from late 90’s early 2000’s was terrible. East Texas was filled with pill mills prescribing 240 zanax, 240 loratabs, 240 somas per person as a months supply! And people would still run out early and go see another doctor dispensing the same quantity! I Lost a parent to that. Thank god they cracked down on the mills and what was being prescribed, stripped those “doctors” of their licenses and shut down their “clinics”..
It’s terrible that it’s been stopped! Everyone should be able to take whatever they want, how can the government tell you what drugs are ok, it’s ridiculous but your probably a bot coz no one thinks like you! Hitler
Get off the junk man, shit fucked my life up in more ways than one, I got clean but had to spend so much money to fix myself. $50K alone on dental work. Quit before it's too late.
@Nao I personally drink stronger IPAs like an Anti-Hero or Lagunitas. Because for one I love IPAs but secondly they're much stronger so for me only 4 or 5 and I'm feeling good. But generally when I drink it's just Vodka (Tito's preferably) and La Croix. I'm 6'5” 230lbs so I know what you mean by having the body type to be able to absorb more alcohol than the average person. But I try to drink in moderation because at 31 now hangovers are more brutal then they were at 21 lol.
