9-23-24 Rob Van Dam on "Headstrong"

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I saw my other favorite local celebrity is the crackhead that rubs bread on the trees in my park These are the top five wrestlers if they use bread as a gimmick.

Yes.

Okay.

Here we go.

Number five whole wheat Hogan.

Yes.

Yes.

For the million-dollar man, Brad D.B.

Ossie.

Love a pun.

Number three rowdy Roddy Peter.

There it is

What's number two?

Number two, CM Panera.

And the

number one wrestler with bread as their gimmick would have to be the under baker.

Oh, there it

is.

From the top.

It's top five Tuesday on The Rock 108 Morning

Show.

Rob Van Dam joining us.

Now, one of the reasons that Rob is on the show, our mutual friend Tom Garland, you guys work together on a project called Headstrong and you are still talking about CTE to this day.

Yeah, so Tom put together a couple of comedy tours for me and I did the road with him.

He was driving and I was like, wow, it's like starting over with wrestling, doing all the small independent shows and

it was it was fun though and you know the artist in me likes I like to just like with wrestling you know I visualize and come up with material and then go out and deliver it and and get that instant gratification payback and so in a lot of ways it's the same and so meantime had that relationship going on and he

picked me up for a tour and I showed up with a concussion and had double vision and it lasted for the better part of two years.

So, so yeah, I, we filmed it.

It was, you know, Tom's idea.

I think we're going to record the comedy tour, but it definitely took a turn headstrong.

It's on Amazon at first.

I didn't want to share all my vulnerabilities, but I thought, you know, it's, it is what it is.

And people might get

might benefit from seeing it and it was the right thing to do.

So now, yeah, I am completely committed towards sharing all honesty.

Actually, I like to be transparent with everything, especially because there's so many people that benefit from realizing that we have

things in common, like getting our heads rocked, you know, or going through depression or certain things like that that I love talking about because I connect deeper with people.

So the movie that we made follows me through the MRIs, the neurological reports, the vision therapy, all that.

And more than ever, right now, I'm finding that my

specific purpose in this whole thing is hope because there's so much fear and you know there's hope and there's hype and like people don't even know what cte is like it's a common term now like uh like like Kleenex you know for for all brands of paper and it's like a lot of my peers

Think that they have CTE and they don't they have concussion damage, but there's a huge difference CTE is a degenerative disease, you know, it's like Alzheimer's it gets worse And definitely not all my peers have it and a lot of people listen to this that think they have it don't have it And so it's cool to get checked out, you know since you

And you might just be fine, you know, it could take, it could take most of the times I got my head rock that took like 10 seconds for my senses to come back to me.

Sound would go out, I'd see slow motion, I'd see floaters, it was all kinds of different things, maybe depending on where in my brain it was hit.

Usually goes right away.

Once in a great while it lasts the rest of the night.

But

I was asking the doctors, is this going to get better?

And they'd say, yeah, I'd say when I don't know.

But I mean, years or days, we don't know.

And that's where the study is.

They don't know.

But it's worth getting checked out.

And since you brought it up, it's CLF help line.org is something that I've been promoting because the concussion legacy foundation, they can get you help, they can put you in support groups, they can find you doctors, all that stuff, because it can be overwhelming.

to find the right path to go down when you're in the middle of that.