The Raven Effect

Kevin Nash and Sean Oliver reunite with their old friend Raven this week for a raw, hilarious, and brutally honest conversation about survival. The guys dig into Raven's new documentary Nevermore: The Raven Effect, which explores the darkness, ego, and mental illness that shaped one of wrestling's most complicated minds. Nash and Raven trade stories about painkillers, ECW chaos, and the mental toll of living on the road, revealing how close they all came to not making it out alive The talk gets personal fast. Raven opens up about his addictions, early-onset Parkinson's, and why watching his own life on film felt like ripping off emotional bandages. Nash reflects on the locker-room culture that glamorized self-destruction and the quiet PTSD every veteran carries from that era They balance the heavy with humor—stories of insane road trips, ridiculous bar fights, and the strange brotherhood of wrestlers who can't stop laughing at their own disasters. There's talk of cereal at midnight, broken bodies, the worst-smelling locker rooms, and the moments in the ring when time itself stopped and the crowd was completely theirs Raven also reflects on the psychology of wrestling—why the smartest guys in the business are often the funniest, and how showmanship, not moves, creates immortality. Nash counters with stories from his own training under Jody Hamilton and the price every big man pays for longevity By the end, the mood turns reflective. The boys talk about faith, regret, and what it means to still be standing when so many friends are gone. It's dark, funny, and deeply human—the kind of episode that reminds you why Kliq This is more than a wrestling show.

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00:00 Kliq This #175: The Raven Effect
00:56 Head on video
02:37 RAVEN
06:22 What was hard to watch in the documentary?
08:42 Getting over drugs
11:31 Did you know you were being self-destructive
14:04 The ECW style vs drugs
16:00 steroids
18:05 BREAK The Perfect Jean
20:22 The Red Glasses
20:48 Eating Cereal
22:36 Being pitched on a documentary
25:07 Who did you ride with?
31:55 Trivia
32:19 The Comedy
34:52 Smart Wrestlers
37:48 Tall wrestlers
39:02 The Monster Factory
41:05 Jodie Hamilton training Kevin Nash
45:03 BREAK MANDO
47:36 Worst Smelling Wrestler
48:44 Raven vs Kevin Nash
50:13 Raven's Health
53:23 Heat dissipates with age
54:23 Kidman over Hogan clean
55:01 Carding rats
56:27 Raven OUTRO
59:25 Wrestler's dying young
01:02:34 "If you guys ever break up, this show won't work"
01:14:06 BREAK GET BLITZED
01:15:47 Kev's Mom and Dad
01:18:14 Classic Vinyl
01:20:02 Pearl Jam bootlegs
01:22:24 Why you won't hear about the UPS crash again
01:23:51 Public Enemy
01:24:53 Davey Boy Smith was the 4th man?
01:25:52 Low Ticket Sales in a bad economy
01:26:52 Bubba Ray
01:28:21 OUTRO