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Rob
Van Dam explains what’s lacking in modern pro
wrestling - February 11, 2022
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Rob
Van Dam spoke with Adam Barnard of Foundation Radio.
The following was sent to us:
WWE
Hall of Famer, former WWE, ECW, and TNA World Champion,
and marijuana advocate Rob Van Dam joins host Adam
Barnard (Twitter: @thisisgoober) on the program this
week!
FULL
EPISODE HERE
Highlights
from the conversation:
On
what’s lacking in modern wrestling: “It’s
a lack of the old school fundamentals. When I was
trained by the Original Sheik, he was no high flyer.
I had to do his kind of wrestling, which was all about
getting your opponent to the ground, trying to pin
him, trying to pin his shoulders to the mat every
chance we got. I had to learn how to sneak in a backflip
or a spin around that. That’s what made my stuff
more compatible. When I was in All Japan, Stan Hansen
used to give me shit when I was real young. I started
at 22 in All Japan. Stan would see me doing all the
flips and he would give me shit. Before a match, we’d
be talking and he’d say ‘Well we’ll
let Claude get in there and do all his shit, and then
he’ll try and tag me in and make it believable
again’. He always called me Claude. I got that
kind of a vibe for a while, but then with Stan I was
in the ring with him, and then he realized it wasn’t
‘hold my foot, let’s count to three, and
then you throw me, I’ll do a backflip out of
your hand like we’re not working together’,
it wasn’t like that at all. I shouldered him
the corner, I did a backflip, I ran at him and put
a boot in his face. Afterwards, he told me I gained
his respect. He was like ‘Wow, I’ve never
seen that up close before, you were there and then
you disappeared, I didn’t know where you went!’
Stan’s always been blind as a bat. I think that’s
what makes a difference. You know, these guys grew
up watching me had some of my peers but I didn’t
have the old-school mentality drilled into their head
so they just kind like imitated what they thought
it was fun, and then you know the competition of it
is something that I think becomes less and less as
the original foundation of the ‘old boys club’
the secret behind the doors the secret society. If
that changes into more of an equal opportunity, work
safe environment, we’re gonna see the style change.”
On
marijuana advocacy and being on the right side of
history: “Well, I mean there is some vindication
with it, but I always knew that I was right, so it’s
not like there was any prize reward for it. I just
knew that eventually, morality would win. As soon
as I started looking into it, you know way back in
’36, ’37, when they first prohibited marijuana,
it was all based on lies. It was all bullshit and
just that alone should give us enough reason to revisit
it. They had racial intentions to drive Mexicans and
blacks out, and they were the ones that smoked it.
We had William Randolph Hearst losing money on the
paper business, because he had all these trees that
he would make money off of, growing and cutting down
20-year-old trees. Marijuana, hemp, cannabis –
if you manipulate the lights, you can grow full crop
in 90 days. It’s superior, it’s better for
the environment to process it. Anyway, I learned that
the reasons that it was prohibited was all so the
rich could get richer. You know, Rockefellers with
fuel, the pharmaceuticals, alcohol and tobacco, they
all spend so many millions of dollars to do campaign
against cannabis, they all stand to lose the money.
They don’t get to put the tax money in their
pocket. People think ‘Why don’t we legalize
it? We will make money off the revenue’. The
1% that I’m mentioning that, you know, lobby
against it and really rule the world and prohibit
it, they don’t all get your tax money. Some of
the federal reserves, I mean that goes to the bankers
for sure. They are in at that percentage. The more
I looked into it, I just figured morality would definitely
win, everything made sense. It’s the ‘most
dangerous drug’, Schedule I, by it can’t
kill anybody? That was one fact that I just thought,
if I got that out, people were really find that interesting.”
On
“The War on Drugs” and personal choice:
“I’m not trying to come out and make any
kind of political statement, but one thing I’ve
noticed, cause I’m an observer that’s why
– that’s what I do and that’s how I
notice that I’m one of a kind – People don’t
care that hundreds of thousands of people, every year
just in America, have been imprisoned over a plant.
A plant that grows that’s not even toxic, that’s
basically almost harmless. The worst part about it
is the law. But for years, hundreds of thousands of
people getting their lives destroyed, their house
is taken, the dogs, the family shot. Sometimes they
get killed. Closing down the businesses, dispensaries.
Besides the fact, you know, that we spend hundreds
of millions to fight it over all these years. People
don’t even care about that if it doesn’t
affect them. But all of a sudden, there’s something
that people could do that could possibly save everybody
from this crisis that’s going on, and now people
want to stick up for the rights. People are like ‘I’ll
die before I get that jab’. I guess that’s
your right, it’s your body, but it’s not
even they’re afraid of the vaccine, it’s
the principle. They don’t want to fold on someone
telling them that they have to do this thing and it’s
like, I feel like, you know, pick your battles, you
know? I agree, I don’t want to live in a communist
country and shit, but if there is a crisis like this,
like a pandemic, and it’s got like the highest
reports of deaths and it’s lowering our life
expectations just because all these bodies being carried
out, and they have something, and they say ‘hey
everyone, everybody has to do it or it’ll spread.’
Is that really the time to stand for it and say, ‘Wait
a minute, I am an individual!’ So that’s
how I feel about that.”
On
his love of Mafia history: “They had their tentacles
in almost everything that’s amazing the people
don’t know about it, how much of the country
they had corrupt and how much control they had over
all the unions, and garbage, and restaurants and bars.
So many, and the fact that you know there was like
20, 24 I think, families that were all part of La
Cosa Nostra across the country. They were all like
kind of under the same umbrella of organization, that’s
amazing. All that shit fascinates me. More specific,
I like it all, La Cosa Nostra, that’s the Italian
one and their associates, but I don’t get off
on a tree branch and start going into Russian mafia,
Chinese mafia. For me, I am out on the West Coast,
I’ve always been interested in the West Coast.
There’s so much out there about New York. I find
that there’s certain stuff from California, Vegas,
that’s not as widely available or as known. That
tends to be a little bit more of my favorite. Chicago
controlled everything west of the Mississippi and
that’s part of what happened on the West Coast
as well.”
Hear
more about Rob’s philosophy on life, happiness,
and his brand new web video show on this week’s
episode of Foundation Radio!
Adam
Barnard hosts Foundation Radio, a conversation podcast
with new episodes each Tuesday on Apple, Spotify,
iHeartRadio, Audible, and all other podcast streaming
services. Previous episodes have included professional
wrestling legends and commentators such as Eric Bischoff,
Bill Goldberg, Diamond Dallas Page, Conrad Thompson,
and Guy Evans, as well as notables in media and music
such as Robert Costa, Asher Roth, Brandon Novak, Tommy
Chong, and artist Henry Jones.
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